indian legislations on the desk of a do right congressman now he don t know much about the issue so he picks up the phone and he asks advice from the senator out in indian country a darling of the energy companies who are ripping off what s left of the reservations huh i learned a safety rule i don t know who to thank don t stand between the reservation and the corporate bank they ll send in federal tanks it isn t nice but it s reality bury my heart at wounded knee deep in the earth cover me with pretty lies bury my heart at wounded knee they got these energy companies who want the land and they ve got churches by the dozens want to guide our hands and sign our mother earth over to pollution war and greed bury my heart at wounded knee deep in the earth cover me with pretty lies bury my heart at wounded knee huh we get the federal marshals we get the covert spies we get the liars by the fire and we get the fbis they lie in court and get naile and still peltier goes off to jail  bury my heart at wounded knee an eighth of the reservations was transferred in secret the murder and intimidation huh and my girlfriend annie mae talked about uranium her head was filled with bullets and her body dumped the fbi cut off her hands and told us she d died of exposure bury my heart at wounded knee deep in the earth cover me with pretty lies bury my heart at wounded knee bury my heart at wounded knee bury my heart at wounded knee bury my heart at wounded knee bury my heart at wounded knee we had the gold rush wars ah didn t we learn to crawl and now our history gets written in a liar s scrawl they tell ya ayy honey you can still be an indian d d down at the y on saturday nights no bury my heart at wounded knee deep in the earth cover me with pretty lies bury my heart at wounded knee bury my heart at wounded knee deep in the earth cover me with pretty lies bury my heart at wounded knee bury my heart at wounded knee 
['american folk revival', 'canadian indigenous', 'canadian singer-songwriter', 'folk', 'folk rock', 'native american contemporary', 'singer-songwriter']