BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE
Buffy Sainte-Marie
© Gypsy Boy Music-SOCAN


          INTRO:
          Indian legislation on the desk of a do-right Congressman
          Now, he don't know much about the issue
          so he picks up the phone and he asks advice from the 
          Senator out in Indian country
          A darling of the energy companies who are
          ripping off what’s left of the reservations. Huh.

          1.
          I learned a safety rule
          I don’t know who to thank
          Don't stand between the reservation and the
          corporate bank
          They send in federal tanks
          It isn’t nice but it’s reality

          chorus:
          Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
          Deep in the Earth
          Cover me with pretty lies
          bury my heart at Wounded Knee. Huh.

          2.
          They got these energy companies that want the land 
          and they’ve got churches by the dozen who want to 
          guide our hands
          and sign Mother Earth over to pollution, war and
          greed
          Get rich... get rich quick.

          chorus...

          3. We got the federal marshals
          We got the covert spies
          We got the liars by the fire
          We got the FBIs
          They lie in court and get nailed
          and still Peltier goes off to jail

          chorus...

          4.
          My girlfriend Annie Mae talked about uranium
          Her head was filled with bullets and her body dumped
          The FBI cut off her hands and told us she’d died of 
          exposure
          Loo loo loo loo loo

          chorus...

          We had the Goldrush Wars
          Aw, didn’t we learn to crawl and still our history gets
          written in a liar’s scrawl
          They tell ‘ya “Honey, you can still be an Indian
          d-d-down at the ‘Y’
          on Saturday nights”

          Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
          Deep in the Earth
          Cover me with pretty lies
          Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. Huh!
--

NOTES:
          When people ask, "What happened to the North American Indians in
          the 1880s?", you can pretty much point to the robber barons of the
          time who needed to make a fortune in oil, gold and other precious
          metals. Simple greed in the hands of a powerful few who
          manipulated the media and politicians. When people ask, "What
          happened to the Indian movement of the sixties and seventies?", you
          can pretty much point to the same motives a hundred years later,
          with uranium added to the list in very big print. 
          The shocking information in this song is not new, but strung
          together; the events tell a story that most non-Indian people don't
          know. Dedicated to Leonard Peltier, the memory of Anna Mae
          Aquash and Joseph Stuntz.
               bsm

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