《The Ballad of IRA Hayes》歌词

歌曲： The Ballad of IRA Hayes

所属专辑：Old School Country Classics: The 1960’s， Vol. 7

歌手： The Hit Crew

时长： 04:00

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The Ballad of IRA Hayes - The Hit Crew (热歌组合)[00:00:00]

Ira Hayes Ira Hayes[00:00:12]

Call him drunken Ira Hayes[00:00:20]

He won't answer anymore[00:00:23]

Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian[00:00:26]

Nor the Marine that went to war[00:00:28]

Gather round me people[00:00:37]

There's a story I would tell[00:00:40]

About a brave young Indian[00:00:42]

You should remember well[00:00:45]

From the land of the Pima Indian[00:00:47]

A proud and noble band[00:00:50]

Who farmed the Phoenix valley in Arizona land[00:00:53]

Down the ditches of thousand years[00:00:58]

The waters grew Ira's people's crops[00:01:01]

Till the white man stole the water rights[00:01:04]

And the sparklin' water stopped[00:01:06]

Now Ira's folks were hungry[00:01:09]

And their land grew crops of weeds[00:01:11]

When war came Ira volunteered[00:01:14]

And forgot the white man's greed[00:01:17]

Call him drunken Ira Hayes[00:01:20]

He won't answer anymore[00:01:23]

Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian[00:01:26]

Nor the Marine that went to war[00:01:28]

There they battled up Iwo Jima's hill[00:01:34]

Two hundred and fifty men[00:01:37]

But only twenty seven lived[00:01:40]

To walk back down again[00:01:42]

And when the fight was over[00:01:45]

And Old Glory raised[00:01:48]

Among the men who held it high[00:01:50]

Was the Indian Ira Hayes[00:01:52]

Call him drunken Ira Hayes[00:02:03]

He won't answer anymore[00:02:05]

Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian[00:02:08]

Nor the Marine that went to war[00:02:10]

Ira Hayes returned a hero[00:02:18]

Celebrated through the land[00:02:22]

He was wined and speeched and honored[00:02:25]

Everybody shook his hand[00:02:28]

But he was just a Pima Indian[00:02:30]

No water no home no chance[00:02:33]

At home nobody cared what Ira'd done[00:02:36]

And when did the Indians dance[00:02:38]

Call him drunken Ira Hayes[00:02:41]

He won't answer anymore[00:02:44]

Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian[00:02:47]

Nor the Marine that went to war[00:02:49]

Then Ira started drinkin' hard[00:02:55]

Jail was often his home[00:02:58]

They'd let him raise the flag and lower it[00:03:01]

Like you'd throw a dog a bone[00:03:04]

He died drunk early one mornin'[00:03:08]

Alone in the land he fought to save[00:03:12]

Two inches of water in a lonely ditch[00:03:14]

Was a grave for Ira Hayes[00:03:17]

Call him drunken Ira Hayes[00:03:20]

He won't answer anymore[00:03:23]

Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian[00:03:26]

Nor the Marine that went to war[00:03:28]

Yeah call him drunken Ira Hayes[00:03:33]

But his land is just as dry[00:03:37]

And his ghost is lyin' thirsty[00:03:40]

In the ditch where Ira died[00:03:42]