Trail Of Tears

John Denver

No more beautiful moons may we spend on our lands
In the north the scarlet councils talks of war  
And the long knives have massacred the tribe and burned
We're not welcome in our homeland any more

R: There will be a trail of tears
   There will be a trail of pain  
   And Jackson will have the Missisisippi and the twenty dollar bill
   But for us the trail is all that will remain

No more  songs of the hunters on the  buffalo plain
No more  smoke from sacred  fires touch these  hills  
And the  numbers of the people will grow  fewer every mile
And our  children will not  learn the Great Spirits  way

R: There will be a trail of tears... 

On the  streets of Rapid City on the  road to Wounded Knee
There is  whiskey for for  getting every  thing  
But the  old ones say there may be time from  learning from
each other
The  way that it had  once been meant to  be

There is still a trail of tears
There is still a trail of pain  
And Jackson has got the Mississippi and the twenty dollar bill
But for us the trail of tears remain
Jackson has got the Mississippi and the twenty dollar bill
But how long will the trail of tears remain