Drums lyrics

From the Indian reservation to the governmental school



Well they're goin' to educate me to the white men's Golden Rule



And I'm learning very quickly for I've learned to be ashamed



And I come when they call Billy though I've got an Indian name



And there are drums beyond the mountain Indian drums that you can't hear



There are drums beyond the mountain and they're getting mighty near



And when they think that they'd changed me cut my hair to meet their needs



Will they think I'm white or Indian quarter blood or just half breed



Let me tell you Mr teacher when you say you'll make me right



In five hundred years of fighting not one Indian turned white



And there are drums...



Well you thought that I knew nothing when you brought me here to school



Just another empty Indian just America's first fool



But now I can tell you stories that are burnt and dried and old



But in the shadow of their telling walks the thunder proud and bold



And there are drums...



Long Pine and Sequoia Handsome Lake and Sitting Bull



There's Magnus Colorado with his sleeves so red and full



Crazy Horse the legend those who bit off Custer's soul



They are dead yet they are living with the great Geronimo



And there are drums...



Well you may teach me this land's hist'ry but we taught it to you first



We broke your hearts and bent your journeys broken treaties left us cursed



Even now you have to cheat us even though you this us tame



In our losing we found proudness in your winning you found shame



And there are drums...
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