Salmon Come Home chords

Salmon Come Home

By Dana Lyons

Copyright 2013

Chorus

C

The salmon come home, again and again

    Am

Since the beginning of time, the beginning of when

          F

We’ve been living here

G

And we’ve been living here forever

        C

The salmon come home, again and again

    Am

Since the beginning of time, the beginning of when

        F

We’ve been living here

G

And we’ve been living on this land forever

F

Then the Russians came,

  Am

For the fur and ground

F

They built log forts

  G

And we burned them down

  F

Then the great flu came

Am

Taking old and young

F

We gathered who was left

  G

And we begin again

Chorus

Then the oil rigs came

Promising us jobs

Leaving oil sheens

As we carry on

Then the loggers came

Taking the great trees

Leaving mountains bare

Leaving muddy streams

Chorus

F

Now they come for the coal

Am

Underneath our river

   F

To destroy our home

    G

Take our children’s future

F

We are one small town

  Am

We are one proud people

  F

We are one with salmon

  G

We are one with eagle

  F

We are one small town

  Am

We are one proud people

  F

We are still surviving

  G

We are still surviving

F                                                                 Am

I do not believe creator wants this to happen

I do not believe creator wants this to happen

I do not believe creator wants this to happen

I do not believe creator wants this to happen

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