Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee Lyrics

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee lyrics

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!