Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
Composer(s): Buffy Saint-Marie
Performer(s): Buffy Saint-Marie; Indigo Girls



Indian legislation 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 send in federal tanks
It isn’t nice but it’s reality

Chorus:
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
Deep in the Earth
Cover me with pretty lies
bury my heart at Wounded Knee 
Huh

They got these energy companies that want the land 
and they’ve got churches by the dozen who want to guide our hands
and sign Mother Earth over to pollution, war and greed
Get rich... get rich quick

Chorus

We got the federal marshals
We got the covert spies
We got the liars by the fire
We got the FBIs
They lie in court and get nailed
and still Peltier goes off to jail

Chorus

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
Loo loo loo loo loo

Chorus

We had the Goldrush Wars
Aw, didn’t we learn to crawl and still our history gets written in a liar’s scrawl
They tell ‘ya “Honey, you can still be an Indian d-d-down at the ‘Y’ on Saturday nights”

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
Deep in the Earth
Cover me with pretty lies
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee 
Huh!