Bigfoot Waltz

But the land was already claimed by a people
 When the cowboy came and when the soldiers came
 The story of the American Indian is in a lot of ways
 A story of tragedy, like that day at Wounded Knee, South Dakota
 Big Foot was an Indian chief
 Of the Minneconjou band
 A band of Minneconjou Sioux
 From South Dakota land
 Big Foot said to Custer
 "Stay away from Crazy Horse"
 But Custer crossed into Sioux land
 And he never came back across
 Then Big Foot led his people
 To a place called Wounded Knee
 And they found themselves surrounded
 By the 7th Cavalry
 Big chief Big Foot
 Rise up from your bed
 Minneconjou babies cry
 For their mothers lying dead
 Big Foot was down with a fever
 When he reached Wounded Knee
 And his people all were prisoners
 Of the 7th Cavalry
 Two hundred women and children
 And another hundred men
 Raised up a white flag of peace
 But peace did not begin
 An accidental gunshot
 And Big Foot was first to die
 And over the noise of the rifles
 You could hear the babies cry
 Big chief Big Foot
 It's good that you can't see
 Revenge is being wrought
 By Custer's 7th Cavalry
 Then smoke hung over the canyon
 On that cold December day
 All was death and dying
 Around where Big Foot lay
 Farther on up the canyon
 Some had tried to run and hide
 But death showed no favorites
 Women, men, and children died
 One side called it a massacre
 The other a victory
 But the white flag is still waving
 Today at Wounded Knee
 Big chief Big Foot
 Your Minneconjou band
 Is more than remembered here
 In South Dakota land