Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

[Intro]
Indian legislations 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, huh

[Verse 1]
I learned a safety rule
I don't know who to thank
Don't stand between the reservation and the corporate bank
They'll send in federal tanks
It isn't nice but it's reality

[Chorus]
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
Deep in the Earth
Cover me with pretty lies
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee

[Verse 2]
They got these energy companies who want the land
And they've got churches by the dozens, want to guide our hands
And sign our Mother Earth over to pollution, war and greed
(Get rich, get rich quick)

[Chorus]
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)

[Verse 3]
Huh, 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 naile and still Peltier goes off to jail
(The bullets don't match the gun)

[Bridge]
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
An eighth of the reservations
(Bury my heart at Wounded Knee)
Was transferred in secret
(Bury my heart at Wounded Knee)
The murder and intimidation
(Bury my heart at Wounded Knee)

[Verse 4]
Huh, and 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'd died of exposure

[Chorus]
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)

[Post-Chorus]
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
(Bury my heart at Wounded Knee)
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
(Bury my heart at Wounded Knee)

[Verse 5]
We had the Gold Rush Wars, ah, didn't we learn to crawl
And now our history gets written in a liar's scrawl
They tell ya "Ayy, honey, you can still be an Indian
D-d-down at the Y on Saturday nights", no

[Chorus]
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
(Bury my heart at Wounded Knee)

[Outro]
(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)
(Bury my heart at Wounded Knee)
(Bury my heart at Wounded Knee)
(Bury my heart at Wounded Knee)