ARTIST: Buffy Sainte-Marie
TITLE: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Lyrics and Chords
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
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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
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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
Deep in the Earth
Cover me with pretty lies
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
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They got these energy companies who want the land
And they've got churches by the dozens want to guide our hand
And sign Mother Earth over to pollution, war and greed
Get rich, get rich quick
{Refrain}
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee - Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
Deep in the Earth - Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
Cover me with pretty lies - Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee - Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
We get the federal marshals, we get the covert spies
We get the liars by the fire, and we get the FBIs
They lie in court and get nailed, and still 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
Transferred in secret - Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
Murder and intimidation - Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, Aiyi-aiyi
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 died of exposure
{Refrain}
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee - Bury my heart at Wounded Knee (4X)
We had the goldrush wars, ah, didn't we learn to crawl
And now our history gets written in a liar's scrawl
They tell ya, "Hey, honey, you can still be an Indian d-d-down at the Y on
Saturday nights"
{Refrain twice}
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