Johnny Cash - Big Foot

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But the land was already claimed by a people when the cowboy came and when the soldiers came
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The story of the American Indian is in a lot of ways a story of tragedy
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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

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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 more than remembered here in South Dakota land
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Big chief Big Foot, your Minneconjou band
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Is more than remembered here in South Dakota land

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