The Last Hill That Shows You All The Valley

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E
On the last hill that shows you all the valley

      A
Look back to see what little's to be seen

E                 G
Burned books left over from the rally

C                      F
A worker-priest left bleeding in the alley

     B                             G# / / / | / / / / | 
And realise this place was never green

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E
On the last hill that shows you all your travel

      A
Look back to see your tepees disappear

E               G
A team of army dump-trucks full of gravel

C                   F
Comes to fill the graves and tamp them level

     B                            G# / / / | / / / / |
The buffalo will not return this year

|G/C / / / | / / / / |B/E / / / | / / / / |

E
On the last hill that brands you as a dreamer

      A
Look back to see the dreams were always true

E                    G
The Persians went ashore at Iwo Jima

C                  F
Christ was in the gold mines at Kolyma

   B                                G# / / / | / / / / |
Denounced because his mother was a Jew

|G/C / / / | / / / / |B/E / / / | / / / / |

E
On the last hill that shows you all the battle

      A
Look back to everywhere you cried for joy

E                    G
The killer-dogs run down your barren cattle

C                   F
Your kid Cassandra walks collecting metal

     B                                         G#
And you'll see when those rows of dust-clouds settle

G/C                  B                  A / / / | / / / / |
There are helicopters on the walls of Troy

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                                          -- chord transcription by Ian Chippett

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