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Lyrics for As Long As by JOHNNY CASH:
| | | Artist: | JOHNNY CASH |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | As Long As | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 79 | | | | Lyrics: | As long as the moon shall rise as long as the rivers flow
As long as the sun will shine as long
as the grass shall grow
The Senecas are an Indian tribe of the Iroquios nation
Down on
the New York Pennsylvania Line you'll find their reservation
After the US revolution cornplanter
was a chief
He told the tribe these men they could trust that was his true belief
He went
down to Independence Hall and there was a treaty signed
That promised peace with the USA and
Indian rights combined
George Washington gave his signature the Government gave its
hand
They said that now and forever more that this was Indian land
As long as the moon shall
rise...
On the Seneca reservation there is much sadness now
Washington's treaty has
been broken and there is no hope no how
Across the Allegheny River they're throwing up a
dam
It will flood the Indian country a proud day for Uncle Sam
It has broke the ancient
treaty with a politician's grin
It will drown the Indians graveyards cornplanter can you
swim
The earth is mother to the the Senecas they're trampling sacred ground
Change the mint
green earth to black mud flats as honor hobbles down
As long as the moon shall
rise...
The Iroquios Indians used to rule from Canada way south
But no one fears the
Indians now and smiles the liar's mouth
The Senecas hired an expert to figure another
site
But the great good army engineers said that he had no right
Although he showed them
another plan and showed them another way
They laughed in his face and said no deal Kinuza dam is
here to stay
Congress turned the Indians down brushed off the Indians plea
So the Senecas
have renamed the dam they call it Lake Perfidy
As long as the moon shall
rise...
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