《My Country ’Tis of Thy People You’re Dying》歌词

歌曲： My Country ’Tis of Thy People You’re Dying

歌手： Buffy Sainte-Marie

时长： 06:48

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My Country 'tis of Thy People You're Dying - Buffy Sainte-Marie[00:00:00]

Now that your big eyes have finally opened[00:00:02]

Now that you're wondering how must they feel[00:00:08]

Meaning them that you've chased across[00:00:13]

America's movie screens[00:00:15]

Now that you're wondering how can it be real[00:00:19]

That the ones you've called colorful noble and proud[00:00:24]

In your school propaganda they starve in their splendor[00:00:30]

You've asked for my comment I simply will render[00:00:38]

My country 'tis of thy people you're dying[00:00:45]

Now that the long houses breed superstition[00:00:57]

You force us to send our toddlers away[00:01:03]

To your schools where they're taught[00:01:08]

To despise their traditions[00:01:11]

You forbid them their languages then further say[00:01:15]

That American history really began[00:01:20]

When Columbus set sail out of Europe[00:01:25]

Then stress that the nation of leeches that conquered this land[00:01:30]

Are the biggest and bravest and boldest and best[00:01:36]

And yet where in your history books is the tale[00:01:42]

Of the genocide basic to this country's birth[00:01:47]

Of the preachers who lied how the Bill of Rights failed[00:01:53]

How a nation of patriots returned to their earth[00:01:58]

And where will it tell of the Liberty Bell[00:02:03]

As it rang with a thud o'er Kinzua mud[00:02:09]

And of brave Uncle Sam in Alaska this year[00:02:14]

My country 'tis of thy people you're dying[00:02:20]

Hear how the bargain was made for the West[00:02:30]

With her shivering children in zero degrees[00:02:35]

Blankets for your land so the treaties attest[00:02:42]

Oh well blankets for land is a bargain indeed[00:02:47]

And the blankets were those Uncle Sam had collected[00:02:54]

From smallpox-diseased dying soldiers that day[00:03:00]

And the tribes were wiped out and the history books censored[00:03:05]

A hundred years of your statesmen have felt[00:03:11]

It's better this way[00:03:14]

And yet a few of the conquered have somehow survived[00:03:16]

Their blood runs the redder though genes have paled[00:03:23]

From the Gran Canyon's caverns to craven sad hills[00:03:28]

The wounded the losers the robbed sing their tale[00:03:34]

From Los Angeles County to upstate New York[00:03:39]

The white nation fattens while others grow lean[00:03:45]

Oh the tricked and evicted they know what I mean[00:03:50]

My country 'tis of thy people you're dying[00:03:56]

The past it just crumbled the future just threatens[00:04:05]

Our life blood shut up in your chemical tanks[00:04:11]

And now here you come bill of sale in your hands[00:04:16]

And surprise in your eyes that we're lacking in thanks[00:04:22]

For the blessings of civilization you've brought us[00:04:28]

The lessons you've taught us the ruin you've wrought us[00:04:34]

Oh see what our trust in America's brought us[00:04:39]

My country 'tis of thy people you're dying[00:04:45]

Now that the pride of the sires receives charity[00:04:55]

Now that we're harmless and safe behind laws[00:05:03]

Now that my life's to be known as your 'Heritage'[00:05:10]

Now that even the graves have been robbed[00:05:17]

Now that our own chosen way is a novelty[00:05:24]

Hands on our hearts we salute you your victory[00:05:31]

Choke on your blue white and scarlet hypocrisy[00:05:38]

Pitying the blindness that you've never seen[00:05:45]

That the eagles of war whose wings lent you glory[00:05:50]

They were never no more than carrion crows[00:05:57]

Pushed the wrens from their nest[00:06:03]

Stole their eggs changed their story[00:06:06]

The mockingbird sings it it's all that he knows[00:06:10]

"Ah what can I do " say a powerless few[00:06:15]

With a lump in your throat and a tear in your eye[00:06:21]

Can't you see that their poverty's profiting you [00:06:27]

My country 'tis of thy people you're dying[00:06:35]