[Ella Wheeler Wilcox] | [Little Big Horn] | [The Ballad of Ira Hayes] | [De röde männens klagan]
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When the Regiment Came Back.
All the uniforms were blue, When the regiment went marching down the street (down the
street), Oh, the music of their feet, Oh, the glitter and the splendor of the sight (of the sight), When the regiment came back, And the uniforms had faded into gray (into gray), For the dead who lose their way, Oh, the sorrow and the anguish of the sight (of the sight), |
Little Big Horn |
Wyoming Tales and Trails |
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In Memory of Ira Hayes
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Dagens visa 2002 juli 21 |
The Ballad of Ira Hayes text och musik: Peter LaFarge Call him drunken Ira Hayes He won't answer anymore Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian Nor the Marine that went to war Gather round me people there's a story I would tell About a brave young Indian you should remember well From the land of the Pima Indian A proud and noble band Who farmed the Phoenix valley in Arizona land Down the ditches for a thousand years The water grew Ira's peoples' crops 'Till the white man stole the water rights And the sparklin' water stopped Now Ira's folks were hungry And their land grew crops of weeds When war came, Ira volunteered And forgot the white man's greed There they battled up Iwo Jima's hill, Two hundred and fifty men But only twenty-seven lived to walk back down again And when the fight was over And when Old Glory raised Among the men who held it high Was the Indian, Ira Hayes Ira returned a hero Celebrated through the land He was wined and speeched and honored Everybody shook his hand But he was just a Pima Indian No water, no crops, no chance At home nobody cared what Ira'd done And when did the Indians dance Then Ira started drinkin' hard Jail was often his home They'd let him raise the flag and lower it like you'd throw a dog a bone! He died drunk one mornin' Alone in the land he fought to save Two inches of water in a lonely ditch Was a grave for Ira Hayes Yeah, call him drunken Ira Hayes But his land is just as dry And his ghost is lyin' thirsty In the ditch where Ira died |
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De röde männens klagan.
text: Magnus Elmblad Ur Samlade dikter af Magnus Elmblad 1887. Författaren är känd för visorna Farmareflickan och Petter Jönssons resa till Amerika
länkarMagnus Elmblad Samlade dikterFarmareflickan Petter Jönssons amerikaresa |
De röde männens klagantext: Magnus ElmbladTill fädrens skuggor hän mot solnedgången
Hur väl dock var oss på de gröna ängar,
Men släckt är elden på den kända hällen,
Den hvite kom. På våra rika slätter,
Man stal vår jord - det kallades att "bryta
I blekansigten! Vi förakta eder.
Se dagen sjunker öfver skogens toppar
Så låt oss ila hän mot solnedgången
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länkarMagnus Elmblad Samlade dikterFarmareflickan Petter Jönssons amerikaresa |
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