Pine Ridge

tabbed by Andrew Woods

Pine Ridge

Written and performed by Greg Keelor with Blue Rodeo

>From the Leonard Peltier benefit album "Pine Ridge"

I think this is as close as it comes. Any suggestions on the lyrics

or anything else: woodsa@tuns.ca

D-Em-C-G

D-Em-C-G

Gun squads got whatever they wanted

On Pine Ridge

Dickie Wilson the only law and order

Sat back and watched while over 100 were murdered

He'd made his bed with the government man

Taking everything he could for himself, his family and

friends

And he didn't want those longhairs on his reservation

They were always causing trouble and instigating

So he waged his war of intimidation

On his poverty stricken reservation

>From ??wounded knees?? to the ??longest walks??

While the government destroys what won^Òt be bought

When the whites first came to the Black Hills for the gold

Now the corporations steal the uranium and coal

They destroyed the land and the traditional ways

And you can^Òt drink the water, you better not stand in the way

On Pine Ridge

On Pine Ridge

This is a song of freedom

While the eagle soars in the endless blue sky

For the innocent, wrongly imprisoned

This is a song of freedom

 

 

 

The government man hate the color of your skin and your ?dogshined?

reservation

No reasons why those two FBI were on Oglala land chasing that red van

And the FBI admit Leonard Peltier did not commit the killings that have

kept

him 20 years in prison

 

This is a song of freedom

 

No explanations why those two FBI were on Oglala land chasing that red

van

Well maybe because Dickie Wilson was in Washington selling uranium to

the

American nightmare

As the people striving 2 FBI were lying dead in a pasture

Williams and Collier

Caught in a crossfire

 

Dino Butler and ??Bob Roberdobo?? got tried and acquitted

And the case against Jimmy Eagle was so weak it never got prosecuted

So they set their sights on the last chance of a conviction

with a ??record?? eye-witness and a legal extradition

Leonard Peltier had fled across the border to southern Alberta

The Canadian government was far too eager

And in awe of their elected copkiller

There's a few that know the truth this morning in Oglala

They^Òre as silent as the land, as silent as Williams and Collier

They^Òre as silent as the eagle in the endless blue sky

They^Òre as silent as the sun, she's been watching such a long time

Cause it^Òs a sacred mind of ???? that's brought to the ?????

Leonard Peltier's rule divided the land

And the soldiers came to protect their own

With the promises of peace and the land that they stole

And they murdered Crazy Horse killed off the buffalo

Since yesterday and today and all of tomorrow

There^Òs a silence in the land, there^Òs a sadness in the people

But life goes on, it's the same as it's always done

On Pine Ridge

On Pine Ridge

solo (over D-Em-C-G)

This is a song of freedom

While the eagle soars in the endless blue sky

For the innocent, wrongly imprisoned

This is a song of freedom

 

--

"Every point of the universe is a fixed point: all you have to do

is hang the Pendulum from it."

-Umberto Eco