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Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 22:03:07 -0300
From: Andrew Woods <
[email protected]>
Subject: b/blue_rodeo/pine_ridge.crd
tabbed by Andrew Woods
Pine Ridge
Written and performed by Greg Keelor with Blue Rodeo
>From the Leonard Peltier benefit album "Pine Ridge"
I think this is as close as it comes. Any suggestions on the lyrics
or anything else:
[email protected]
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Gun squads got whatever they wanted[/tab]
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On Pine Ridge[/tab]
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Dickie Wilson the only law and order[/tab]
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Sat back and watched while over 100 were murdered[/tab]
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He d made his bed with the government man[/tab]
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Taking everything he could for himself, his family and[/tab]
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friends[/tab]
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And he didn t want those longhairs on his reservation[/tab]
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They were always causing trouble and instigating[/tab]
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So he waged his war of intimidation[/tab]
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On his poverty stricken reservation[/tab]
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>From ??wounded knees?? to the ??longest walks??[/tab]
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While the government destroys what won^?t be bought[/tab]
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When the whites first came to the Black Hills for the gold[/tab]
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Now the corporations steal the uranium and coal[/tab]
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They destroyed the land and the traditional ways[/tab]
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And you can^?t drink the water, you better not stand in the way[/tab]
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On Pine Ridge[/tab]
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On Pine Ridge[/tab]
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This is a song of freedom[/tab]
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While the eagle soars in the endless blue sky[/tab]
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For the innocent, wrongly imprisoned[/tab]
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This is a song of freedom[/tab]
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The government man hate the color of your skin and your ?dogshined?[/tab]
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reservation[/tab]
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No reasons why those two FBI were on Oglala land chasing that red van[/tab]
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And the FBI admit Leonard Peltier did not commit the killings that have[/tab]
kept
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him 20 years in prison[/tab]
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This is a song of freedom[/tab]
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No explanations why those two FBI were on Oglala land chasing that red[/tab]
van
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Well maybe because Dickie Wilson was in Washington selling uranium to[/tab]
the
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American nightmare[/tab]
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As the people striving 2 FBI were lying dead in a pasture[/tab]
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Williams and Collier[/tab]
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Caught in a crossfire[/tab]
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Dino Butler and ??Bob Roberdobo?? got tried and acquitted[/tab]
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And the case against Jimmy Eagle was so weak it never got prosecuted[/tab]
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So they set their sights on the last chance of a conviction[/tab]
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with a ??record?? eye-witness and a legal extradition[/tab]
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Leonard Peltier had fled across the border to southern Alberta[/tab]
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The Canadian government was far too eager[/tab]
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And in awe of their elected copkiller[/tab]
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There s a few that know the truth this morning in Oglala[/tab]
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They^?re as silent as the land, as silent as Williams and Collier[/tab]
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They^?re as silent as the eagle in the endless blue sky[/tab]
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They^?re as silent as the sun, she s been watching such a long time[/tab]
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Cause it^?s a sacred mind of ???? that s brought to the ?????[/tab]
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Leonard Peltier s rule divided the land[/tab]
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And the soldiers came to protect their own[/tab]
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With the promises of peace and the land that they stole[/tab]
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And they murdered Crazy Horse killed off the buffalo[/tab]
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Since yesterday and today and all of tomorrow[/tab]
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There^?s a silence in the land, there^?s a sadness in the people[/tab]
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But life goes on, it s the same as it s always done[/tab]
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On Pine Ridge[/tab]
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On Pine Ridge[/tab]
solo (over ---G)
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This is a song of freedom[/tab]
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While the eagle soars in the endless blue sky[/tab]
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For the innocent, wrongly imprisoned[/tab]
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This is a song of freedom[/tab]
--
"Every point of the universe is a fixed point: all you have to do
is hang the Pendulum from it."
-Umberto Eco