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Lyrics for Ira Hayes by Unknown:
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| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Ira Hayes | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 169 | | | | Lyrics: | IRA HAYES
by Peter LaFarge
(verses spoken, chorus sung)
Gather
round me people and a story I will tell
About a brave young Indian - you should remember
well
From the tribe of Pima Indians- a proud and peaceful band
Who farmed the Phoenix
valley in Arizona land
Down their ditches for a thousand years
the sparkling water
rushed
Till the white man stole their water rights
and the running water hushed
Now
Ira's folks were hungry and their farm grew crops of weeds
But when war came, he
volunteered
and forgot the white man's greed
Ira Hayes, Ira Hayes
Call
him drunken Ira hayes
He won't answer any more
Not the whiskey drinking Indian
Nor the Marine who went to war
They started up Ira Jima hill, two hundred and fifty
men
But only twenty seven lived to walk back down again
And when the fight was over and
Old Glory raised
Among the men who held it high was the Indian, Ira Hayes
Ira Hayes
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 money, no crops, no chance
At
home nobody cared what Ira'd done
and when do the Indians dance?
Then Ira started
drinking hard, jail often was his home
They let him raise the flag there and lower it
as
you'd throw a dog a bone
He died drunk early one morning,
alone in the land he'd fought
to save
Two inches of water in a lonely ditch was the grave for Ira Hayes
Yes,
call him drunken Ira Hayes
But his land is still as dry
And his ghost is lying
thirsty
In the ditch where Ira died
words and tune by Peter LaFarge
@Indian
@west @war @soldier @drink
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