ELTON JOHN - Indian Sunset lyrics

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Music by elton john<br>Lyrics by bernie taupin<br>Available on the album madman across the water<br><br>As I awoke this evening with the smell of wood smoke clinging<br>Like a gentle cobweb hanging upon a painted tepee<br>Oh I went to see my chieftain with my warlance and my woman<br>For he told us that the yellow moon would very soon be leaving<br>This I can't believe I said, I can't believe our warlord's dead<br>Oh he would not leave the chosen ones to the buzzards and the soldiers guns<br><br>Oh great father of the iroquois ever since I was young<br>I've read the writing of the smoke and breast fed on the sound of drums<br>I've learned to hurl the tomahawk and ride a painted pony wild<br>To run the gauntlet of the sioux, to make a chieftain's daughter mine<br><br>And now you ask that I should watch<br>The red man's race be slowly crushed<br>What kind of words are these to hear<br>From yellow dog whom white man fears<br><br>I take only what is mine lord, my pony, my squaw, and my child<br>I can't stay to see you die along with my tribe's pride<br>I go to search for the yellow moon and the fathers of our sons<br>Where the red sun sinks in the hills of gold and the healing waters run<br><br>Trampling down the prairie rose leaving hoof tracks in the sand<br>Those who wish to follow me I welcome with my hands<br>I heard from passing renegades geronimo was dead<br>He'd been laying down his weapons when they filled him full of lead<br><br>Now there seems no reason why I should carry on<br>In this land that once was my land I can't find a home<br>It's lonely and it's quiet and the horse soldiers are coming<br>And I think it's time I strung my bow and ceased my senseless running<br>For soon I'll find the yellow moon along with my loved ones<br>Where the buffalos graze in clover fields without the sound of guns<br><br>And the red sun sinks at last into the hills of gold<br>And peace to this young warrior comes with a bullet hole