《My Country Tis of Thy People》歌词

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:01:11] To despise their traditions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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