Medicine Wheel Chords
by Darden Smith
Medicine Wheel by Darden Smith is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, G, A, Bm and Fm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: D G D G G D
Verse: 1
D G
He come to town looking for work back on a year or two
A G D
Now he's sleeping in the bushes off to one side of Montana Avenue
D G
Good people walk by shaking their head saying now ain't it a shame
A G D
Another Indian boy lost to the bottle and the methamphetamines
D Bm D
But he dreams of Horses And Eagle Wings
Fm Bm A
The Dance of the Buffalo, Sacred rings
G D
At the Medicine Wheel.. they'll be Singing
G A
A thousand voices to call him home
G D G D
To the Big Horn Mountains above the Tree line
G D A D
At the Medicine Wheel.. time rolls on
Verse: 2
D G
Now he woke up stumbling blind, yelling in the middle of the street
A G D
Cops came round, took him downtown so he could get some sleep
D
And they think it was just about the break of dawn
G
he just slipped away
A
He'd been talking all night but nobody knew
G D
what he was trying to say
D Bm D
It was something about Horses And Eagle Wings
Fm Bm A
The Dance of the Buffalo Sacred rings
G D
At the Medicine Wheel they'll be Singing
G A
A thousand voices to call him home
G D G D
To the Big Horn Mountains above the Tree line
G D A D
At the Medicine Wheel... time rolls on....
G D A D
At the Medicine Wheel...time rolls on....
G D D G D