Colors of the Wind from Pocahontas Alan Menken-Stephen Schwartz 1995 0033 4/4 C(no 3rd) strum on 1 NC 3 NC Picking pattern 30 23 30 23 30 23 30 23 C(no 3rd) C(no 3rd) C(no 3rd) - Cm You think I’m an ignorant savage, and you’ve been so many places, I C(no 3rd) A= - Gm A= - Gm guess it must be so. But still I cannot see, if the savage one is me, Cm - A= G(no 3rd) - NC C how can there be so much that you don’t know? You don’t know…

Am C Am C Am C You think you own whatever land you land on; the earth Em Am is just a dead thing you can claim; but I know ev’ry rock and tree and F Dm - G7 Am creature has a life, has a spirit, has a name.

C Am C You think the only people who are people are the people who look and Em Am F think like you, but if you walk the footsteps of a stranger you’ll learn Dm - G7 C things you never knew you never knew.

Am Em - F Am Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon, or asked the Em F - G grinning bobcat why he grinned? Can you sing with all the voices of C - Am F Am the mountain? Can you paint with all the colors of the wind? Can Dm - G7 C Am C Am you paint with all the colors of the wind? A=or A=maj7 0 2 3 X G(no 3rd) 0 3 4 3

Colors of the Wind (cont.)

C Am C Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest, come taste the sun sweet Em Am F berries of the earth; come roll in all the riches all around you, and for Dm - G7 Am - G once never wonder what they’re worth.

C Am C The rainstorm and the river are my brothers; the heron and the otter Em Am F are my friends; and we are all connected to each other in a Dm - G7 C circle, in a hoop that never ends.

Em - F C - Am B= How high does the sycamore grow? If you cut it down, then you’ll F - G F - G Am Em - F never know. And you’ll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon, Am Em F - for whether we are white or copper skinned, we need to sing with all G C - Am F the voices of the mountain, need to paint with all the colors of the Am Dm - G Em - F wind. You can own the earth and still all you’ll own is earth un-til Am - F C Am F - Dm C9 you can paint with all the colors of the wind.

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11/14/2015