The Ballad Of Ira Hayes lyrics
Song information
Artist: Kinky Friedman Album: Lasso From El Paso
Lyrics
(Peter lafarge)
Gather round me people and a story I will tell 'Bout a brave young indian lad, you should remember well From a tribe of pima indians, a proud and peaceful band Who farmed the phoenix valley out in arizona land
Down their ditches for a thousand years the sparkling water rushed Till the white man stole the water rights and the running water hushed Ira's folks was hungry, their fields grew thick with weeds But when war came ira volunteered and forgot the white man's greed
Call him drunken ira hayes, he won't answer anymore Not that whiskey drinking indian or marine who went to war
Well, they battled up iwo jima hill, two hundred and fifty men But only twenty-seven lived to walk back down again And after the fight was over and old glory proudly raised Among the men who held her high was an indian, ira hayes
Call him drunken ira hayes, he won't answer anymore Not that whiskey drinking indian or marine who went to war
Well, ira hayes returned a hero, celebrated throughout the land He was wined and speeched and honored, everybody shook his hand But he's just a pima indian, no food, no friend, no chance And nobody cared what ira did and when do the indians dance
Well, ira took to drinking hard, jail often was his home They used to let him raise the flag there and lower it just like you'd throw a dog a bone And ira died drunk early one morning all alone in the land he'd fought to save Two inches of water in a lonely ditch was the grave for ira hayes
Call him drunken ira hayes, he won't answer anymore Not that whiskey drinking indian or marine who went to war
Yeah, call him drunken ira hayes, but his land is till as dry And his ghost, well, that's lying thirsty in the ditch where ira died
Call him drunken ira hayes, he won't answer anymore Not that whiskey drinking indian or marine who went to war
[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]
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