Big Foot
Composer(s): Johnny Cash
Performer(s): Johnny Cash



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

Bigfoot was an Indian Chief of the Miniconjou band
a band of Miniconjou Sioux from South Dakota land
Bigfoot said to Custer, stay away from Crazy Horse
but Custer crossed into Sioux land, and he never came back across
Then Bigfoot led his people to a place called Wounded Knee
and they found themselves surrounded by the Seventh Cavalry

Big Chief Bigfoot, rise up from your bed
Miniconjou babies cry for their mothers lyin' dead

Bigfoot was down with a fever when he reached Wounded Knee
and his people all were prisoners of the Seventh Cavalry
Two hundred women and children and another hundred men
raised up a white flag of peace, but peace did not begin
An accidental gunshot, and Bigfoot was first to die
and over the noise of the rifles you could hear the babies cry

Big Chief Bigfoot, it' s good that you can't see
revenge is being wrought by Custer's Seventh Cavalry

Then smoke hung over the canyon on that cold December day
all was death and dying around where Bigfoot lay
Farther on up the canyon some had tried to run and hide
but death showed no favourites, women, men and children died
One side called it a massacre, the other a victory
but the white flag is still waving today at Wounded Knee

Big Chief Bigfoot, your Miniconjou band
is more 'n than remembered here in South Dakota land
Big Chief Bigfoot, your Miniconjou band
is more 'n than remembered here in South Dakota land