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Lyrics for The Ballad Of Ira Hayes by JOHNNY CASH:
| | | Artist: | JOHNNY CASH |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | The Ballad Of Ira Hayes | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 67 | | | | Lyrics: | Ira Hayes,
Ira Hayes
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the
whiskey drinkin' Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war
Gather round me people there's
a story I would tell
About a brave young Indian you should remember well
From the land of
the Pima Indian
A proud and noble band
Who farmed the Phoenix valley in Arizona
land
Down the ditches for a thousand years
The water grew Ira's peoples'
crops
'Till the white man stole the water rights
And the sparklin' water
stopped
Now Ira's folks were hungry
And their land grew crops of weeds
When war
came, Ira volunteered
And forgot the white man's greed
Call him drunken Ira
Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
Nor the Marine that went
to war
There they battled up Iwo Jima's hill,
Two hundred and fifty men
But only
twenty-seven lived to walk back down again
And when the fight was over
And when Old
Glory raised
Among the men who held it high
Was the Indian, Ira Hayes
Call him
drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
Nor the Marine
that went to war
Ira returned a hero
Celebrated through the land
He was wined and
speeched and honored; Everybody shook his hand
But he was just a Pima Indian
No water,
no crops, no chance
At home nobody cared what Ira'd done
And when did the Indians
dance
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin'
Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war
Then Ira started drinkin' hard;
Jail was
often his home
They'd let him raise | | | |  Reddit | X / Twitter | Facebook | Copy link |
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