Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song 1890, artist - Charlie Parr. Album song I Dreamed I Saw Paul Bunyan Last Night, in the genre КантриDate of issue: 30.09.2013
Record label: Chaperone
Song language: English
1890 |
| I was in a burial party, way back to Wounded Knee, |
| Rock hammers and ice picks, to chip the dead ones free |
| After the massacre, the blizzard, they’ve been frozen to the ground |
| Mother, children and warriors we found them all around. |
| They were frozen in their agony or shock and terror has they fled |
| The army’s giant Howitzers they sang their song of death |
| We found chief Big Foot, his scarf around his face |
| The ice was frozen blood, from neck down to his waist |
| Their bloody footprints in the snow that the ghost danced for the dead |
| and I hoped that it was true, what all the legend said. |
| They’re will be a new spring coming and our families will come home |
| Game will fill the prairie, crops will always grow. |
| We wrapped the bodies in red blankets, placed them on our sled |
| And left there stacked up rifles and everything that they had |
| Crazy Horse was buried here, someone said as we were due to start |
| Just as hard, I told him, it’s only just as hard. |