Buffy Sainte-Marie《My Country Tis of Thy People You re Dying》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:00.58]Now that your big eyes have finally opened [00:07.35]Now that you're wondering how must they feel [00:11.71]Meaning them that you've chased across [00:14.21]America's movie screens [00:17.90]Now that you're wondering how can it be real [00:23.47]That the ones you've called colorful  noble and proud [00:28.66]In your school propaganda  they starve in their splendor [00:37.01]You've asked for my comment  I simply will render [00:43.82]My country 'tis of thy people you're dying [00:56.30]Now that the long houses breed superstition [01:02.30]You force us to send our toddlers away [01:07.43]To your schools where they're taught [01:10.24]To despise their traditions [01:13.74]You forbid them their languages  then further say [01:19.12]That American history really began [01:24.12]When Columbus set sail out of Europe [01:28.68]Then stress that the nation of leeches that conquered this land [01:35.36]Are the biggest and bravest and boldest and best [01:40.86]And yet where in your history books is the tale [01:46.05]Of the genocide basic to this country's birth [01:51.86]Of the preachers who lied  how the Bill of Rights failed [01:57.42]How a nation of patriots returned to their earth [02:02.49]And where will it tell of the Liberty Bell [02:07.75]As it rang with a thud o'er Kinzua mud [02:13.25]And of brave Uncle Sam in Alaska this year [02:19.12]My country 'tis of thy people you're dying [02:29.07]Hear how the bargain was made for the West [02:34.25]With her shivering children in zero degrees [02:41.18]Blankets for your land  so the treaties attest [02:46.38]Oh well  blankets for land is a bargain indeed [02:52.69]And the blankets were those Uncle Sam had collected [02:58.64]From smallpox-diseased dying soldiers that day [03:03.93]And the tribes were wiped out and the history books censored [03:09.87]A hundred years of your statesmen have felt [03:13.18]It's better this way [03:15.49]And yet a few of the conquered have somehow survived [03:21.74]Their blood runs the redder though genes have paled [03:26.95]From the Gran Canyon's caverns to craven sad hills [03:32.89]The wounded  the losers  the robbed sing their tale [03:38.07]From Los Angeles County to upstate New York [03:44.08]The white nation fattens while others grow lean [03:49.29]Oh the tricked and evicted they know what I mean [03:55.17]My country 'tis of thy people you're dying [04:04.04]The past it just crumbled  the future just threatens [04:09.92]Our life blood shut up in your chemical tanks [04:15.11]And now here you come  bill of sale in your hands [04:20.92]And surprise in your eyes that we're lacking in thanks [04:26.98]For the blessings of civilization you've brought us [04:32.87]The lessons you've taught us  the ruin you've wrought us [04:38.45]Oh see what our trust in America's brought us [04:44.35]My country 'tis of thy people you're dying [04:54.49]Now that the pride of the sires receives charity [05:01.87]Now that we're harmless and safe behind laws [05:08.93]Now that my life's to be known as your 'Heritage' [05:16.49]Now that even the graves have been robbed [05:23.43]Now that our own chosen way is a novelty [05:30.30]Hands on our hearts we salute you your victory [05:37.01]Choke on your blue white and scarlet hypocrisy [05:43.64]Pitying the blindness that you've never seen [05:49.46]That the eagles of war whose wings lent you glory [05:55.84]They were never no more than carrion crows [06:02.14]Pushed the wrens from their nest [06:05.15]Stole their eggs  changed their story [06:08.59]The mockingbird sings it  it's all that he knows [06:14.27]"Ah  what can I do "  say a powerless few [06:20.04]With a lump in your throat and a tear in your eye [06:26.42]Can't you see that their poverty's profiting you [06:34.17]My country 'tis of thy people you're dying