Name: Ballad Of Sitting Bull
Duration: 5 min 7 s
Channel: Bob T. Guevara
Description: "Ballad Of Sitting Bull" is a song by Bob T Guevara.

Ballad Of Sitting Bull

Bob T Guevara

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Bob T Guevara

Hey there folks, this is Bob T. Guevara, making old and new music for all of you. Political, poetical, sensitive, funny, and whatever else you like.

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Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Folk

Charts

Peak #200

Peak in subgenre #41

Author

Bob T. Guevara

Uploaded

December 12, 2008

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MP3 4.7 MB • 128 kbps • 5:07

Story behind the song

I wrote this song for one of the greatest heros in the history of the american natives' fight for their freedom after I read Dee Brown's book 'Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee'.

Lyrics

BALLAD FOR SITTING BULL by Bob T. Guevara

  E             D   G D     E     "D-G-D-E"
Tatanka Yotanka was a brave chief.
  G             D           G     "G-D-E"
Tatanka Yotanka was a brave chief.
    E                        D              G      "D-E"
But because he was an indian he had much to grieve.

White folks called him simply Sitting Bull.
White folks called him simply Sitting Bull.
But although he was an indian he was very powerful.

He was the big chief of the Hunkpapa Sioux.
He was the big chief of the Hunkpapa Sioux.
And keeping his people free is what he wanted to do.

Around the Bighorn Mountains and the Black Hills he used to roam.
Around the Bighorn Mountains and the Black Hills he used to roam.
Even after lots of other Sioux had to call a reservation their home.

When the white man wanted to buy the land that was his.
When the white man wanted to buy the land that was his.
He picked up a pinch of dust and said "not even as much as this!"

His friends Crazy Horse, Two Moon, Big Foot and more,
His friends Crazy Horse, Two Moon, Big Foot and more,
Joined him in the summer of 1876 at the banks of the Little Bighorn.

'Long Hair' Custer's bluecoats came in search for red indian blood
'Long Hair' Custer's bluecoats came in search for red indian blood
But the indians left nothin' of them than their white bones in the mud.

Sitting Bull only defended his homeland
Sitting Bull only defended his homeland
And it was the only real indian victory over the white man.

But that battle turned the white man into a very angry mood
But that battle turned the white man into a very angry mood
So Sitting Bull left his homeland and went up to the Canadian woods.

He could find no peace there, so he left again.
He could find no peace there, so he left again.
But back with the other Sioux he was sourrounded by landhungry white men.

He didn't gave them a single acre though.
He didn't gave them a single acre though.
And his people idolized him as a great hero.

"He's the one that causes all the trouble", the white man did say.
"He's the one that causes all the trouble", the white man did say.
And so they sent some indians to take him away.

Sitting Bull's people came to help him and a wild shooting began
Sitting Bull's people came to help him and a wild shooting began
And in this shooting he was killed by a red man.

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