Tonart: G major
Verse 1
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From the Indian reservation to
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the governmental school
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Well they're goin' to educate me to
the white men's Golden Rule
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And I'm learning very quickly for
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I've learned to be ashamed
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And I come when they call Billy
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though I've got an Indian name
And there are drums beyond the mountain
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Indian drums that you can't hear
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There are drums beyond the mountain
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and they're getting mighty near
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And when they think that they'd changed
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me cut my hair to meet their needs
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Will they think I'm white or Indian
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quarter blood or just half breed
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Let me tell you Mr teacher when
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you say you'll make me right
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In five hundred years of fighting
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not one Indian turned white
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And there are drums...
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Well you thought that I knew nothing
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when you brought me here to school
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Just another empty Indian
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just America's first fool
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But now I can tell you stories that
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are burnt and dried and old
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But in the shadow of their telling
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walks the thunder proud and bold
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And there are drums...
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Long Pine and Sequoia Handsome
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Lake and Sitting Bull
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There's Magnus Colorado
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with his sleeves so red and full
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Crazy Horse the legend those
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who bit off Custer's soul
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They are dead yet they are living
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with the great Geronimo
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And there are drums...
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Well you may teach me this land's
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hist'ry but we taught it to you first
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We broke your hearts and bent your jour
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neys broken treaties left us cursed
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Even now you have to cheat us
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even though you this us tame
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In our losing we found proudness in
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your winning you found shame
Outro 1
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