BIG FOOT

But the land was already claimed by a people
When the cowboy came and when the soldiers came
The story of the American Indian is in a lot of ways
A story of tragedy, like that day at Wounded Knee, South Dakota
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Big Foot was an Indian chief Of the Minneconjou band
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A band of Minneconjou Sioux From South Dakota land
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Big Foot said to Custer "Stay away from Crazy Horse"
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But Custer crossed into Sioux land And he never came back across
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Then Big Foot led his people To a place called Wounded Knee
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And they found themselves surrounded By the 7th Cavalry
CHORUS:
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Big chief Big Foot Rise up from your bed
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Minneconjou babies cry For their mothers lying dead
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Big Foot was down with a fever When he reached Wounded Knee
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And his people all were prisoners Of the 7th Cavalry
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Two hundred women and children And another hundred men
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Raised up a white flag of peace But peace did not begin
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An accidental gunshot And Big Foot was first to die
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And over the noise of the rifles You could hear the babies cry
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Big chief Big Foot It's good that you can't see
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Revenge is being wrought By Custer's 7th Cavalry
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Then smoke hung over the canyon On that cold December day
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All was death and dying Around where Big Foot lay
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Farther on up the canyon Some had tried to run and hide
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But death showed no favorites Women, men, and children died
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One side called it a massacre The other a victory
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But the white flag is still waving Today at Wounded Knee
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Big chief Big Foot Your Minneconjou band
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Is mourned and remembered here In South Dakota land