Reply #9: "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" by Buffy Saint Marie [View All]

[roughsatori]

This is from a Buffy album that did not sell well but is a favorite of mine:


Indian legislations on the desk of the do-right congressman
But he don't much about the issues,
so he picks up the phone,
And asks the advice of the senator out in Indian county
A darling of the energy companies
They're ripping off what's left of the reservation

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

BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE
Deep in the earth
I said cover me with pretty lies
Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee

They've got these energy companies
Who want to take the land
And they got churches by the dozens trying to guide our hand
And sign our mother Earth over to pollution, war and greed
No

Bury my heart at wounded knee
I said deep in the earth
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Won't you cover me with your pretty lies
Bury my heart at wounded knee

We get the federal marshals
We get the covert spies
We get the liars by the fire
We get the FBI
They lie in court and get nailed
And still Leonard Peltier goes off to jail
THE BULLETS DON'T MATCH THE GUN

Bury my heart at wounded knee
An eighth of the reservation
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Was transfered in secret
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Got your murder and intimidation
Bury my heart at wounded knee

My girlfriend Anna May
Talked about Uranium
Her head was full of bullets and her body dumped
The FBI cut off her hands and told us she died of exposure
Yeah right

Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee
Deep in the Earth
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Won't you cover me with pretty lies
Bury my heart at wounded knee
I'M TALKING ABOUT A REVOLUTION!!!!!!!

We had the gold rush wars
Why didn't we learn to crawl
And now our history gets written in a liar's scrawl
They tell me:
Honey, you can still be an Indian down at the Y on saturday night

Bury my heart at wounded knee
I said deep in your earth
Bury my heart at wounded knee
You can cover with all your pretty lies
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Bury my heart
Well an eighth of the reservation
Bury my heart
Was transfered in secret
Bury my heart
Got nothing but murder and intimidation
Bury my heart
BURY ME
BURY ME
Bury my heart
Bury my heart
Bury my heart
Bury my heart