Lakota
Words by joni mitchell
Music by larry klein and joni mitchell
I am lakota!
Lakota!
Looking at money man--
Diggin the deadly quotas--
Out of balance--
Out of hand
We want the land!
Lay down the reeking ore!
Dont you hear the shrieking in the trees?
Everywhere you touch the earth--shes sore
Every time you skin her all things weep
Your money mocks us--
Restitution--what good can it do? --
Kennelled in metered boxes
Red dogs in debt to you
I am lakota!
Lakota!
Fighting among ourselves
All we can say with one whole heart
Is we wont sell--
No well never sell
We want the land!
The lonely coyote calls
In the woodlands--footprints of the deer
In the barrooms--poor drunk bastard falls
In the courtrooms--deaf ears--sixty years
You think were sleeping--but
Quietly like rattlesnakes and stars
We have seen the trampled rainbows
In the smoke of cars
I am lakota
Brave
Sun pity me
I am lakota
Broken
Moon pity me
I am lakota
Grave
Shadows stretching
Lakota
Oh pity me
I am lakota
Weak
Grass pity me
I am lakota
Faithful
Rocks pity me
I am lakota
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song performed by Joni Mitchell
Added by Lucian Velea
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