The Code Of Handsome Lake Lyrics - Robbie Robertson

*These are the People of the Longhouse 

These are the People that you tried to break 

These are the People of the Pines 

Who Follow the Code of Handsome Lake 

He drank your poison, swallowed your fire 

And lay with fever four long years 

He received a vision so inspired 

Three messengers with painted faces appeared 

On the Allegheny river at a place called Burnt House 

The code was shared for the very first time 

By a Seneca chief, they call Handsome Lake 

With a Wounded Heart and a sober mind 

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**We are the People of the Longhouse 

We are the People that you couldn't break 

We are the People of the Sacred Pipe 

Who Follow The Code of Handsome Lake 

When the Dark Moon had come to live in your soul 

Get in touch with your creator, you are not alone 

These are the words 

That he had spoken two hundred years ago 

And today they still ring true 

Like they're carved in stone 

When Native life was hurled into the pit 

By way of the Canon, Rum, and Greed 

Oh a great fire was burned, to let the smoke rise 

And show the Six Nations the code was still alive 

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Way Down Deep in the Bush 

We Oh hi ne oh he oh we oh we we 

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