Tonart: E major
Verse 1
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The liquor stores on the edge
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of the reservations are made out of cement,
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solid cement with iron doors.
Come gather round me, people,
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that you should remember well
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down in Arizona land.
Down the ditches for ten thousand years
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Then the white man stole the water rights
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and all the running waters hushed.
The Naira's folks go hungry
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and forgot the white man's greed
Call him drunken Naira Hayes,
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the Marine that went to war
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They battled up Iwo Jima Hill, 250 men
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And only 27 lived to
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walk back down again
And when that fight was over,
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Well, among the men that held her high
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was the Indian Ira Hayes
You call him drunken Ira Hayes,
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the Marine that went to war
Well, Ira came back a hero
and honored
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Everybody shook his hand
But he was just a Pima Indian
what Ira had done
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It's when did the Indians dance
And so Ira started drinkin' hard
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and jail was off in his home
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They let him raise the flag and lower it
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Like you'd throw a dog or bone
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Well, he died drunk early one morning
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All alone in this land he'd fought to save
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Two inches of water in a lonesome ditch
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was a grave for Ira Hayes
Call him Drunken Ira Hayes,
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the Marine that went to war
Yeah, call him drunken Ira Hayes,
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inside the ditch where Ira died
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Thanks.
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