Band The The Code Of Handsome Lake Lyrics

The Code Of Handsome Lake Lyrics

*these are the people of the longhouse

 These are the people that you tried to break

 These are the people of the pines

 Who follow the code of handsome lake

 

 He drank your poison, swallowed your fire

 And lay with fever four long years

 He received a vision so inspired

 Three messengers with painted faces appeared

 On the allegheny river at a place called burnt house

 The code was shared for the very first time

 By a seneca chief, they call handsome lake

 With a wounded heart and a sober mind

 

 *repeat

 

 **we are the people of the longhouse

 We are the people that you couldn't break

 We are the people of the sacred pipe

 Who follow the code of handsome lake

 

 When the dark moon had come to live in your soul

 Get in touch with your creator, you are not alone

 These are the words

 That he had spoken two hundred years ago

 And today they still ring true

 Like they're carved in stone

 When native life was hurled into the pit

 By way of the canon, rum, and greed

 Oh a great fire was burned, to let the smoke rise

 And show the six nations the code was still alive

 

 Way down deep in the bush

 We oh hi ne oh he oh we oh we we

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 * repeat

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