Johnny Cash - The Ballad of Ira Hayes - Mono Version paroles de chanson

paroles de chanson The Ballad of Ira Hayes - Mono Version - Johnny Cash



Ira Hayes
Ira Hayes
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinking Indian
Or the marine that went to war
Gather 'round me people
There's a story I would tell
'Bout 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 a thousand years
The waters grew Ira's peoples' crops
'Til the white man stole their water rights
And the sparkling 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 drinking Indian
Or the marine that went to war
There they battled up Iwo 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
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinking Indian
Or the marine that went to war
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 water, no home, 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 drinking Indian
Or the marine that went to war
Then Ira started drinking hard
Jail was often his home
They let him raise the flag and lower it
Like you'd throw a dog a bone
He died drunk early one morning
Alone in the land he fought to save
Two inches of water and a lonely ditch
Was a grave for Ira Hayes
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinking Indian
Or the marine that went to war
Yeah, call him drunken Ira Hayes
But his land is just as dry
And his ghost is lying thirsty
In the ditch where Ira died



Writer(s): P. La Farge


Johnny Cash - American Remains: The Best of Johnny Cash
Album American Remains: The Best of Johnny Cash
date de sortie
17-07-2020

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2 I Walk the Line
3 Folsom Prison Blues (live)
4 Highwayman
5 (Ghost) Riders In the Sky
6 A Boy Named Sue (live)
7 Jackson - Mono Version
8 One Piece at a Time
9 Man in Black
10 Sunday Morning Coming Down
11 Cocaine Blues (Live)
12 Ragged Old Flag
13 Don't Take Your Guns to Town
14 American Remains
15 The General Lee
16 Orange Blossom Special - Mono Version
17 There Ain't No Good Chain Gang (with Waylon Jennings)
18 I Still Miss Someone - Mono Version
19 It Ain't Me, Babe
20 She Used to Love Me a Lot
21 A Thing Called Love
22 Five Feet High and Rising - Mono Version
23 Tennessee Flat-Top Box
24 Sunday Morning Coming Down (Live)
25 Hey Porter
26 The Ballad of Ira Hayes - Mono Version
27 San Quentin (Live)
28 If I Were a Carpenter
29 25 Minutes to Go (Live)
30 Flesh and Blood




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