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“THIS LAND WAS OUR LAND” © 1994, 2014, 2021 Elton Houck (words and music)/China Co-op Music Publishing (ASCAP)…reprint from author’s book—“JUMP ROPING through the LABYRINTH to the ABYSS—finding God”© Elton Houck 2014—Outskirts Press--------------// “THIS LAND WAS OUR LAND”:…. VERSE 1:…At wounded knee/Pity was not to be found/The cavalry slaughtered all our braves/And then the horse soldiers ran our women and children down./…..CHORUS:….This land was not your land/This land was our land/Before you took it away from the native sons/With Horse Soldiers, cavalry, and Gatlin guns./…..VERSE 2:… They took our spirit and beat down our pride/They took the wounded and those that survived/The ragged and beaten/And we were more dead than alive./…..VERSE 3:…The soldiers bound us up and they made us go/Forced us to march across this land/This trail of tears and woe/We died like fallen grains of sand./….VERSE 4:…Now the White Man came and took our hunting land/It was a shame the way he beat us down/He slew his brother/Now our blood cries out from the ground./…..REPEAT CORUS:…./…VERSE 5:….Redman’s sacred land is all settled down now/With factories, hotels, smelters, and stores/White Man took all we had/Will he come back and ask for more?./…..---------------------..........NOTE;;original artwork for song "THIS LAND WAS NOT YOUR LAND" acrylic on acid free black art paper 3" X 5" titiled "Indian Land" (c) 2003 Elton Houck---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Flag Counter ======

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