《The Ballad of Ira Hayes》歌词

歌曲： The Ballad of Ira Hayes

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歌手： Kris Kristofferson&Gillia

时长： 03:45

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The Ballad of Ira Hayes - Kris Kristofferson[00:00:01]

Ira Hayes[00:00:05]

Call him drunken Ira Hayes[00:00:08]

He won't answer anymore[00:00:11]

Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian[00:00:14]

Nor the Marine that went to war[00:00:17]

Gather round me people there's a story I would tell[00:00:23]

About a brave young Indian you should remember well[00:00:29]

From the land of the Pima Indian[00:00:35]

A proud and noble band[00:00:38]

Who farmed the Phoenix valley in Arizona land[00:00:42]

Down the ditches for a thousand years[00:00:48]

The water grew Ira's peoples' crops[00:00:51]

'Till the white man stole the water rights[00:00:53]

And the sparklin' water stopped[00:00:56]

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

And their land grew crops of weeds[00:01:02]

When war came Ira volunteered[00:01:06]

And forgot the white man's greed[00:01:09]

Call him drunken Ira Hayes[00:01:13]

He won't answer anymore[00:01:16]

Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian[00:01:19]

Nor the Marine that went to war[00:01:22]

There they battled up Iwo Jima's hill [00:01:27]

Two hundred and fifty men[00:01:30]

But only twenty-seven lived to walk back down again[00:01:33]

And when the fight was over[00:01:41]

And when Old Glory raised[00:01:43]

Among the men who held it high[00:01:46]

Was the Indian Ira Hayes[00:01:49]

Call him drunken Ira Hayes[00:01:53]

He won't answer anymore[00:01:57]

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

Nor the Marine that went to war[00:02:03]

Ira returned a hero[00:02:07]

Celebrated through the land[00:02:10]

He was wined and speeched and honored;[00:02:13]

Everybody shook his hand[00:02:16]

But he was just a Pima Indian[00:02:19]

No water no crops no chance[00:02:22]

At home nobody cared what Ira'd done[00:02:25]

And when did the Indians dance[00:02:29]

Call him drunken Ira Hayes[00:02:32]

He won't answer anymore[00:02:36]

Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian[00:02:39]

Nor the Marine that went to war[00:02:42]

Then Ira started drinkin' hard;[00:02:47]

Jail was often his home[00:02:50]

They'd let him raise the flag and lower it[00:02:53]

Like you'd throw a dog a bone [00:02:56]

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

Alone in the land he fought to save[00:03:02]

Two inches of water in a lonely ditch[00:03:05]

Was a grave for Ira Hayes[00:03:09]

Call him drunken Ira Hayes[00:03:13]

He won't answer anymore[00:03:16]

Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian[00:03:20]

Nor the Marine that went to war[00:03:22]

Yeah call him drunken Ira Hayes[00:03:27]

But his land is just as dry[00:03:29]

And his ghost is lyin' thirsty[00:03:32]

In the ditch where Ira died[00:03:35]