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Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
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Buffy Sainte-Marie
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Indian legislations 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
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A darling of the energy companies who are
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Ripping off what's left of the reservations. Huh.
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I learned a safety rule
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I don't know who to thank
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Don't stand between the reservation
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And the corporate bank
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They'll send in federal tanks
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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. Huh.
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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
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Want to guide our hands
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And sign Mother Earth over to pollution, war and greed
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Get rich... get rich quick.
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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. Huh.
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We get the federal marshals
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We get the covert spies
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We get the liars by the fire
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And we get the FBIs
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They lie in court and get nailed
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And still Peltier goes off to jail
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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee (eighth of the reservation)
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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee (transferred it secret)
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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee (of murder and intimidation)
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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
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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'd died of exposure
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Loo loo loo loo loo
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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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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
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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
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We had the Goldrush Wars
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Aw, 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 'ya "Honey, you can still be an Indian
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d-d-down at the 'Y'
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on Saturday nights"
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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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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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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
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