GHOSTDANCE - Bill Miller
from the album Ghostdance (1999)

On this, the title cut from his 1999 album, Miller combines a driving acoustic 
rock with the vocal technique common to Native American singing, that being the 
use of "vocables". these are simply word sounds, used so the voice can act as an 
instrument without having specific meaning to impart. This is used most often in 
pow wow drumming, where the singing is more properly chanting, adding melody to the drumming.

INTRO hammer Am7->Am  Am7->Am   Am  Am  Am Am Am x 4

V1

AmI (x02210@1)wanna go where the blind can see.

AmI (x02210@1)wanna go where the lame can walk.

DmI (xx0231@1)wanna see the sick ones clean.

AmWhere (x02210@1)the deaf can hear and the silent talk .

CH1

Dm (xx0231@1)          Am (x02210@1)        E7 (020130@1)              AmWhere (x02210@1)are you going? To a ghostdance in the snow.
 
  Dm (xx0231@1)        Am (x02210@1)             E7 (020130@1)          AmI (x02210@1)am a mighty warrior, and I'm finally comin home.

V2 [Drum singers sing vocables together]

AmI (x02210@1)wanna go where the dead are raised (hey ya ho)

AmWhere (x02210@1)the mountain lion lays down with the lamb (hey ya ho)

DmI (xx0231@1)wanna stand where God is praised (hey ya ho)

AmI (x02210@1)wanna ride across the plains to the promised land  (hey ya ho)

CH2

Dm (xx0231@1)          Am (x02210@1)        E7 (020130@1)              AmWhere (x02210@1)are  WE going, to a ghostdance in the snow
 
  Dm (xx0231@1)        Am (x02210@1)             E7 (020130@1)          AmI (x02210@1)am a mighty warrior, and I'm finally comin home  .... Am

V3a [1 = singer solo; D = drum singers repeat together]

Am1 (x02210@1)hey ya hey ya hey ya hey ya hey

AmD (x02210@1)hey ya hey ya hey ya hey ya hey

Dm1 (xx0231@1)hey ya hey ya hey ya hey ya hey

AmD (x02210@1)hey ya hey ya hey ya hey ya hey

V3b

AmWhere (x02210@1)i'm going don't-need-to-raise your voice.

AmNo (x02210@1)starvation we'll have plenty to eat.

DmNo (xx0231@1)guns no wars, no hateful noise.

AmJust (x02210@1)a victory dance, we'll never taste defeat.

V3c

AmWhere (x02210@1)nothin's done or said that can't be forgiven.

AmWhere (x02210@1)every step you take is on sacred ground.

DmWalk (xx0231@1)away from death to the land of the living.

AmWhere (x02210@1)all the lost tribes are finally found.

CH3

Dm (xx0231@1)          Am (x02210@1)        E7 (020130@1)              AmWhere (x02210@1)are you going? To a ghostdance in the snow.
 
  Dm (xx0231@1)        Am (x02210@1)             E7 (020130@1)          AmI (x02210@1)am a mighty warrior, and I'm finally comin home.

Dm (xx0231@1)          Am (x02210@1)        E7 (020130@1)              AmWhere (x02210@1)are you going? To a ghostdance in the snow.
 
  Dm (xx0231@1)        Am (x02210@1)             E7 (020130@1)          AmI (x02210@1)am a mighty warrior, and I'm finally comin home.

E7 (020130@1)          AmYES (x02210@1)I'm finally comin home

Am (x02210@1)w/ HEY YA HEYYA to end