Gold Rush Brides — 10,000 Maniacs

Chords and lyrics for Gold Rush Brides by 10,000 Maniacs (key of Gm).

Intro

[Gm] [F] [C]

Verse 1

[F]Follow the typical signs, the hand painted lines [C]down prairie roads.
[F]Pass the lone church spire, pass the talking wire [C]from where to who knows?
[C]There's no way to [F]divide the beauty of the sky [C]from the wild western plains.
[F]Where a man could drift in legendary myth [C]by roaming over spaces
[F]The land was free and the [C]price was right

Verse 2

[Gm]Dakota on the wall is a white robed woman tall [F]yet maidenly
[Gm]Such power in her hand as she hails the wagon [F]man's family.
[Gm]I see Indians that crawl through this mural [F]that recalls our [C]history

Verse 3

[F]Who were the homestead wives?
[C]Who were the gold rush brides?
[C]Does anybody know?
[F]Do their works survive their yellow fever lives [C]in pages they wrote?
[C]The land was free yet [F]it cost their [C]lives

Verse 4

[Gm]In miner's lust for gold a family's house was bought and sold [F]piece by piece
[Gm]A widow staked her claim on a dollar and his name [F]so painfully
[Gm]In letters mailed back home her Eastern sisters they would [F]moan as they
[C]would read
[Gm]Accounts of madness childbirth loneliness and [F]grief
[Gm]Accounts of madness, childbirth, loneliness and [F]grief

Outro