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Johnny Cash - Drums Lyrics

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  • 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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