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)