Lakota Lyrics - Singles - Mitchell Joni

I am Lakota! 

Lakota! 

Looking at money man-- 

Diggin' the deadly quotas-- 

Out of balance-- 

Out of hand 

We want the land! 

Lay down the reeking ore! 

Don't you hear the shrieking in the trees? 

Everywhere you touch the earth--she's sore 

Every time you skin her all things weep 

Your money mocks us-- 

Restitution--what good can it do?-- 

Kennelled in metered boxes 

Red dogs in debt to you 

I am Lakota! 

Lakota! 

Fighting among ourselves 

All we can say with one whole heart 

Is we won't sell-- 

No we'll never sell 

We want the land! 

The lonely coyote calls 

In the woodlands--footprints of the deer 

In the barrooms--poor drunk bastard falls 

In the courtrooms--deaf ears--sixty years 

You think we're sleeping--but 

Quietly like rattlesnakes and stars 

We have seen the trampled rainbows 

In the smoke of cars 

I am Lakota 

Brave 

Sun pity me 

I am Lakota 

Broken 

Moon pity me 

I am Lakota 

Grave 

Shadows stretching 

Lakota 

Oh pity me 

I am Lakota 

Weak 

Grass pity me 

I am Lakota 

Faithful 

Rocks pity me 

I am Lakota 

Meek 

Standing water 

Lakota 

Oh pity me 

I am Lakota! 

Lakota! 

Standing on sacred land 

We never sold these Black Hills 

To the missile-heads-- 

To the power plants 

We want the land! 

The bullet and the fence--broke Lakota 

The black coats and the booze--broke Lakota 

Courts that circumvent--choke Lakota 

Nothing left to lose 

Tell me grandfather 

You spoke the fur and feather tongues-- 

Do you hear the whimpering waters 

When the tractors come? 

Repeat Chorus 

Sun pity me 

Mother earth 

Mother 

Moon pity me 

Father sky 

Father 

Shadows 

Stretching on the forest floor 

Mother earth 

Oh pity me 

Father sky 

Father 

Grass pity me 

Mother earth 

Mother 

Rocks pity me 

Father sky 

Father 

Water 

Standing in a wakan manner 

Mother earth 

Oh pity me 

1988 Crazy Crow Music BMI