Trail Of Tears

No more beautiful moons may we spend on our lands

In the north the scarlet councils talks of war

And the long knives have massacred the tribe and burned

corn

We're not welcome in our homeland any more

R: There will be a trail of tears

There will be a trail of pain

And Jackson will have the Missisisippi and the twenty dollar bill

But for us the trail is all that will remain

No more songs of the hunters on the buffalo plain

No more smoke from sacred fires touch these hills

And the numbers of the people will grow fewer every mile

And our children will not learn the Great Spirits way

R: There will be a trail of tears...

On the streets of Rapid City on the road to Wounded Knee

There is whiskey for for getting every thing

But the old ones say there may be time from learning from

each other

The way that it had once been meant to be

There is still a trail of tears

There is still a trail of pain

And Jackson has got the Mississippi and the twenty dollar bill

But for us the trail of tears remain

Jackson has got the Mississippi and the twenty dollar bill

But how long will the trail of tears remain