Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee

Indian legislation’s 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. 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. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, deep in the Earth!! Cover me with pretty lies bury my heart at Wounded Knee ! They got these energy companies who want the land, and they've got churches by the dozens want to guide our hand, and sign our Mother Earth over to pollution, war and greed. (Get rich, get rich quick!) Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee, deep in the Earth, bury my heart at Wounded Knee ! Cover me with pretty lies, bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee. We get the federal marshals, we get the covert spies, we get the liars by the fire, and we get the FBIs. They lie in court and get nailed, and still Peltier goes off to jail, (The bullets don't match the gun!) Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, an eighth of the reservation, bury my heart at Wounded Knee, transferred in secret. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, murder and intimidation, Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, Aiyi-aiyi! 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 died of exposure. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee, deep in the Earth, bury my heart at Wounded Knee! Cover me with pretty lies, bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee. (4x) We had the goldrush wars, ah, didn't we learn to crawl, and now our history gets written in a liar's scrawl. They tell you, "Hey, honey, you can still be an Indian d-d-down at the Y on Saturday nights." Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee, deep in the Earth, bury my heart at Wounded Knee ! Cover me with pretty lies, bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee, deep in the Earth, bury my heart at Wounded Knee ! Cover me with pretty lies, bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee ! (6x)