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

歌曲： The Ballad Of Ira Hayes(Album Version)

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The Ballad Of Ira Hayes - Hamilton Camp[00:00:00]

Call him drunken Ira Hayes[00:00:07]

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

Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian[00:00:13]

Nor the Marine that went to war[00:00:15]

Gather round me people there's a story I would tell[00:00:22]

About a brave young Indian you may remember well[00:00:28]

From the land of the Pima Indian[00:00:32]

A proud and noble band[00:00:35]

Who farmed the Phoenix valley in Arizona land[00:00:38]

Down the ditches for a thousand years[00:00:42]

The water grew Ira's peoples' crops[00:00:45]

'Till the white man stole the water rights[00:00:47]

And the sparklin' water stopped[00:00:50]

Now Ira's folks were hungry[00:00:52]

And their land grew crops of weeds[00:00:54]

When war came Ira volunteered[00:00:57]

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

Call him drunken Ira Hayes[00:01:03]

He won't answer anymore[00:01:06]

Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian[00:01:08]

Nor the Marine that went to war[00:01:10]

There they battled up Iwo Jima's hill [00:01:17]

Two hundred and fifty men[00:01:20]

But only twenty-seven lived to walk back down again[00:01:22]

And when the fight was over[00:01:27]

And when Old Glory raised[00:01:29]

Among the men who held it high[00:01:32]

Was the Indian Ira Hayes[00:01:34]

Call him drunken Ira Hayes[00:01:38]

He won't answer anymore[00:01:41]

Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian[00:01:44]

Nor the Marine that went to war[00:01:46]

Ira returned a hero[00:01:52]

Celebrated through the land[00:01:55]

He was wined and speeched and honored;[00:01:57]

Everybody shook his hand[00:02:00]

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

No water no crops no chance[00:02:05]

At home nobody cared what Ira'd done[00:02:07]

And when did the Indians dance[00:02:10]

Then Ira started drinkin' hard;[00:02:14]

Jail was often his home[00:02:16]

They'd let him raise the flag and lower it[00:02:18]

Like you'd throw a dog a bone [00:02:21]

He died drunk one mornin'[00:02:24]

Alone in the land he fought to save[00:02:26]

Two inches of water in a lonely ditch[00:02:29]

Was a grave for Ira Hayes[00:02:31]

Call him drunken Ira Hayes[00:02:35]

He won't answer anymore[00:02:39]

Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian[00:02:41]

Nor the Marine that went to war[00:02:43]

Yeah call him drunken Ira Hayes[00:02:47]

But his land is just as dry[00:02:50]

And his ghost is lyin' thirsty[00:02:52]

In the ditch where Ira died[00:02:55]