DRUMS
INTRO:
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E A E
From the Indian reservation to the governmental school
E A E B7
Well, they're goin' to educate me to the white men's Golden Rule
E A E
And I'm learning very quickly for I've learned to be ashamed
A E B7 E
And I come when they call Billy though I've got an Indian name
CHORUS:
E A E
And there are drums beyond the mountain Indian drums that you can't hear
A E B7 E
There are drums beyond the mountain And they're getting mighty near
E A E
And when they think that they'd changed me Cut my hair to meet their needs
A E B7
Will they think, I'm white or Indian Quarter blood or just half breed
E A E
Let me tell you, Mr. Teacher When you say, you'll make me right
A E B7 E
In five hundred years of fighting Not one Indian turned white CHORUS:
E A E
Well, you thought that I knew nothing When you brought me here to school
A E B7
Just another empty Indian Just America's first fool
E A E
But now I can tell you stories That are burnt and dried and old
A E B7 E
But in the shadow of their telling walks The thunder proud and bold
E A E A
Long Pine and Sequoia Handsome Lake and Sitting Bull There's Magnus Colorado
E B7
With his sleeves so red and full Crazy Horse, the legend
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Those who bit off Custer's soul They are dead yet they are living
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With the great Geronimo CHORUS:
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Well, you may teach me this land's history But we taught it to you first
A E B7
We broke your hearts and bent your journeys Broken treaties left us cursed
E A E
Even now you have to cheat us Even though you this us tame
A E
In our losing we found proud ness
B7 E CHORUS:
In your winning you found shame
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