Pine Ridge Written and performed by Greg Keelor with Blue Rodeo >From the Leonard Peltier benefit album "Pine Ridge" I think this is as close as it comes. Any suggestions on the lyrics or anything else: woodsa@tuns.ca --- --- Gun squads got whatever they wanted On Pine Ridge Dickie Wilson the only law and order Sat back and watched while over 100 were murdered He'd made his bed with the government man Taking everything he could for himself, his family and friends And he didn't want those longhairs on his reservation They were always causing trouble and instigating So he waged his war of intimidation On his poverty stricken reservation >From ??wounded knees?? to the ??longest walks?? While the government destroys what won^?t be bought When the whites first came to the Black Hills for the gold Now the corporations steal the uranium and coal They destroyed the land and the traditional ways And you can^?t drink the water, you better not stand in the way On Pine Ridge On Pine Ridge This is a song of freedom While the eagle soars in the endless blue sky For the innocent, wrongly imprisoned This is a song of freedom The government man hate the color of your skin and your ?dogshined? reservation No reasons why those two FBI were on Oglala land chasing that red van And the FBI admit Leonard Peltier did not commit the killings that have kept him 20 years in prison This is a song of freedom No explanations why those two FBI were on Oglala land chasing that red van Well maybe because Dickie Wilson was in Washington selling uranium to the American nightmare As the people striving 2 FBI were lying dead in a pasture Williams and Collier Caught in a crossfire Dino Butler and ??Bob Roberdobo?? got tried and acquitted And the case against Jimmy Eagle was so weak it never got prosecuted So they set their sights on the last chance of a conviction with a ??record?? eye-witness and a legal extradition Leonard Peltier had fled across the border to southern Alberta The Canadian government was far too eager And in awe of their elected copkiller There's a few that know the truth this morning in Oglala They^?re as silent as the land, as silent as Williams and Collier They^?re as silent as the eagle in the endless blue sky They^?re as silent as the sun, she's been watching such a long time Cause it^?s a sacred mind of ???? that's brought to the ????? Leonard Peltier's rule divided the land And the soldiers came to protect their own With the promises of peace and the land that they stole And they murdered Crazy Horse killed off the buffalo Since yesterday and today and all of tomorrow There^?s a silence in the land, there^?s a sadness in the people But life goes on, it's the same as it's always done On Pine Ridge On Pine Ridge solo (over ---G) This is a song of freedom While the eagle soars in the endless blue sky For the innocent, wrongly imprisoned This is a song of freedom -- "Every point of the universe is a fixed point: all you have to do is hang the Pendulum from it." -Umberto Eco