Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee

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    Indian legislation’s on the desk of a do-right Congressman, 
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    now, he don't know much about the issue, 
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    so he picks up the phone and he asks advice from the 
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    Senator out in Indian country, a darling of the energy companies, 
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    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, 
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    don't stand between the reservation and the corporate bank. 
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    They send in federal tanks, it isn't nice but it's reality. 

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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, 
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deep in the Earth!! 
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Cover me with pretty lies 
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bury my heart at Wounded Knee ! 

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    They got these energy companies who want the land, 
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    and they've got churches by the dozens want to guide our hand, 
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     and sign our Mother Earth over to pollution, war and greed. 

    (Get rich, get rich quick!) 

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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee, 
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deep in the Earth, bury my heart at Wounded Knee ! 
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Cover me with pretty lies, bury my heart at Wounded Knee, 
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bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee. 

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

    (The bullets don't match the gun!) 

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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, an eighth of the reservation, 
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bury my heart at Wounded Knee, transferred in secret. 
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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, murder and intimidation, 
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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, Aiyi-aiyi! 

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

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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee, 
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deep in the Earth, bury my heart at Wounded Knee! 
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Cover me with pretty lies, bury my heart at Wounded Knee, 
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bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee. 

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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, 
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bury my heart at Wounded Knee. (4x) 

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    We had the goldrush wars, ah, didn't we learn to crawl, 
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    and now our history gets written in a liar's scrawl. 
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    They tell you,        "Hey, honey, you can still be an Indian 
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    d-d-down at the Y on Saturday nights." 

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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee, 
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deep in the Earth, bury my heart at Wounded Knee ! 
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Cover me with pretty lies, bury my heart at Wounded Knee, 
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bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee. 

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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee, 
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deep in the Earth, bury my heart at Wounded Knee ! 
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Cover me with pretty lies, bury my heart at Wounded Knee, 
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bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee. 

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   Bury my heart at Wounded Knee !  (6x)