Joni Mitchell — Lakota

[Refrain] I am Lakota Lakota [Verse 1] Looking at money man Diggin' the deadly quotas Out of balance, out of hand We want the land [Verse 2] Lay down the reeking ore Don't you hear the shrieking in the trees? Everywhere you touch the earth she's sore Every time you skin her all things weep [Verse 3] Your money mocks us Restitution, what good can it do? Kenneled in metered boxes Red dogs in debt to you [Refrain] I am Lakota Lakota [Verse 4] Fighting among ourselves All we can say with one whole heart Is we won't sell, no, we'll never sell We want the land [Verse 5] The lonely coyote calls In the woodlands, footprints of the deer In the barrooms, poor drunk bastard falls In the courtrooms, deaf ears, sixty years [Verse 6] You think we're sleeping But quietly like rattlesnakes and stars We have seen the trampled rainbows In the smoke of cars [Chorus] I am Lakota, brave sun, pity me I am Lakota, broken moon, pity me I am Lakota, grave shadows stretching Lakota, oh pity me I am Lakota, weak grass, pity me I am Lakota, faithful rocks, pity me I am Lakota, meek standing water Lakota, oh pity me [Refrain] I am Lakota Lakota [Verse 7] Standing on sacred land We never sold these Black Hills To the missile-heads, to the power plants We want the land [Verse 8] The bullet and the fence Broke Lakota, the black coats and the booze Broke Lakota, courts that circumvent Choke Lakota, nothing left to lose [Verse 9] Tell me, grandfather You spoke the fur and feather tongues Do you hear the whimpering waters When the tractors come? [Chorus] I am Lakota, brave sun, pity me I am Lakota, broken moon, pity me I am Lakota, grave shadows stretching Lakota, oh pity me I am Lakota, weak grass, pity me I am Lakota, faithful rocks, pity me I am Lakota, meek standing water Lakota, oh pity me [Outro] Sun, pity me Mother earth, mother moon, pity me Father sky, father shadows stretching on the forest floor Mother earth, oh pity me Father sky, father grass, pity me Mother earth, mother rocks, pity me Father sky, father water standing in a wakan manner Mother earth, oh pity me