《The Ballad Of Ira Hayes(Album Version)》歌词

歌曲： The Ballad Of Ira Hayes(Album Version)

所属专辑：The Legend

歌手： Johnny Cash

时长： 04:08

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Artist：johnny cash[00:00:01]

Songs Title：the ballad of ira hayes[00:00:02]

Ira Hayes[00:00:17]

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

He won't answer anymore[00:00:24]

Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian[00:00:27]

Nor the Marine that went to war[00:00:30]

Gather round me people there's a story I would tell[00:00:39]

About a brave young Indian you should remember well[00:00:44]

From the land of the Pima Indian[00:00:49]

A proud and noble band[00:00:52]

Who farmed the Phoenix valley in Arizona land[00:00:55]

Down the ditches for a thousand years[00:01:01]

The water grew Ira's peoples' crops[00:01:03]

'Till the white man stole the water rights[00:01:06]

And the sparklin' water stopped[00:01:08]

Now Ira's folks were hungry[00:01:11]

And their land grew crops of weeds[00:01:14]

When war came Ira volunteered[00:01:16]

And forgot the white man's greed[00:01:19]

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

He won't answer anymore[00:01:25]

Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian[00:01:28]

Nor the Marine that went to war[00:01:30]

There they battled up Iwo Jima's hill [00:01:36]

Two hundred and fifty men[00:01:39]

But only twenty-seven lived to walk back down again[00:01:42]

And when the fight was over[00:01:47]

And when Old Glory raised[00:01:49]

Among the men who held it high[00:01:52]

Was the Indian Ira Hayes[00:01:55]

Call him drunken Ira Hayes[00:02:05]

He won't answer anymore[00:02:08]

Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian[00:02:11]

Nor the Marine that went to war[00:02:13]

Ira returned a hero[00:02:22]

Celebrated through the land[00:02:25]

He was wined and speeched and honored;[00:02:27]

Everybody shook his hand[00:02:30]

But he was just a Pima Indian[00:02:32]

No water no crops no chance[00:02:35]

At home nobody cared what Ira'd done[00:02:37]

And when did the Indians dance[00:02:40]

Call him drunken Ira Hayes[00:02:43]

He won't answer anymore[00:02:46]

Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian[00:02:49]

Nor the Marine that went to war[00:02:51]

Then Ira started drinkin' hard;[00:02:57]

Jail was often his home[00:03:00]

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

Like you'd throw a dog a bone [00:03:05]

He died drunk one mornin'[00:03:10]

Alone in the land he fought to save[00:03:13]

Two inches of water in a lonely ditch[00:03:16]

Was a grave for Ira Hayes[00:03:18]

Call him drunken Ira Hayes[00:03:22]

He won't answer anymore[00:03:24]

Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian[00:03:27]

Nor the Marine that went to war[00:03:29]

Yeah call him drunken Ira Hayes[00:03:35]

But his land is just as dry[00:03:38]

And his ghost is lyin' thirsty[00:03:41]

In the ditch where Ira died[00:03:44]