I am the original creator of this lyric video (not the music, thank JD Blackfoot for that) and of course UA-cam deleted it a few years ago. I'm pleased to see it is still online. Thank you for keeping this song alive, the facts of American history should not be forgotten.
Nice to meet you, friend. I was so moved by this song that I took advantage of your lyric video to translate it into my language. Thank you very much. I will mention your channel in the video description. Long live the Lakota people
It was removed because JD told them too he feels he's getting ripped off of sales he owns the rights to his music he just wants you sell to know time come to his website and you can buy his CDs I did and he use to autograph them I'm not sure I can mention his website on here but it's Friends of JD Blackfoot..look him up he's not doing good I think he was working on a vinyl reissue of this LP
I grew up listening to this on K-SHE 95. I live in Las Vegas now. You don't here any music like kshe classics plays for us. It's sad that the rest of the U.S. doesn't know this music. Keep it up kshe, love yo'all.
I agree ! I grew up in Peerless Park or unincorporated St. Louis county . The KSHE DJ's loved this and the Ultimate Prophecy because the had time to smoke or use the Bathroom . Remember going to the window ?
Yes KSHE used to play this music back in the day, now they just play the usual LZ, WHO, every day. I stopped listening years ago. This song is so good. I really like the bass line.
You took his land and you ate his corn And on his grave your land was born You took his pride and you fed him dirt You wished him winter without a shirt And you called this red man "Savage" And after you crushed him you helped him up To let him drink from an empty cup You gave him the Navy without the fleet And made him lick your hands and kiss your feet And you named this mad dog "Savage" Well I found a book the other day So I looked up red and white to see what it'd say One was a savage the other unlearned Like a look in the mirror the tables were turned For history has named you "Savage" In the year of '65 When I was very young We watched the dust clouds to the South We knew that you had come We saw you build your chain of forts Along the Bozeman Road But Red Cloud had his allies counted Long before it snowed And someday Great White Father you will know my name In December of '66 You met me face to face I decoyed your Captain Fetterman And we never left a trace Into our sacred homelands Your bluecoat soldiers came But we just taught you a heap big lesson In the Battle of a Hundred Slain And someday Great White Father you will know my name In the June of '76 Our Nation joined its hands We made our camps on the Little Big Horn Not knowing of your plans You sent your long-haired Custer With the Seventh Cavalry To hunt and kill my children For wanting to be free And I think it's time Great White Father that you knew my name It's Crazy Horse, it's Crazy Horse And I wish you were here to see Cause I got Yellow Hair cornered at the Big Horn And I'm about to set him free Ride to the village to get my Oglalas' The Sans Arc and the Minneconjous' Get Sitting Bull with his band of Hunkpapas' The Brules' and Blackfoots too Ridin' home from battle came the Cheyenne ponies With white blood drippin' from their feet Their riders were lookin' and shoutin' up to Heaven Here's to Chivington at Sand Creek Hey there Mister Wagonmaster what do you have inside Hidden underneath of that buffalo hide Could it be you brought to me some food from the man back East So my starving children could have a feast Hey mother come look and see What the master done brought to me It's alcohol, tobacco and guns Alcohol, tobacco and guns Now I have seen the eagle soaring beautiful and free I don't want no man to make less of me Do you take me for a fool or as a little child And do you really wonder what's made me wild Hey paleface you better run Because my men been havin' lots of fun On your alcohol, tobacco, and guns Alcohol, tobacco and guns I have waited patiently for you to pay your rent But as yet I haven't seen that first red cent I don't think that there's much chance of me evicting you But watch out for the day that you get Sioux'd A hundred years have seen the setting sun But his sad country still is run On his alcohol, tobacco, and guns Alcohol, tobacco, and guns A hundred years have seen the setting sun But his sad country still is run On his alcohol, tobacco, and guns Alcohol, tobacco, and guns Now you try to trick me And lock me up in jail Where would a stupid savage Find the bondsman or the bail I turn to run for I am scared I want so to be free I feel the ice-cold bayonet As it sinks deep inside of me But someday Great White Father you'll remember me Sioux warriors teach your children The white man's evil tongue Make them know the name of Crazy Horse And the battles he has won So they will know the truth When it's knowledge that they crave Let them sing of the Land of the Free And the Home of the Brave And of the Great White Father that dug my grave Brown rivers once were blue Now the fish float upside-down Ancestral burial grounds That's where you've built your towns The smokestacks from your factories They pollute my skies You slaughtered all my buffalo And you left me here to die And all of this you have done in the name of God Crazy Horse he was laid to rest On a creek called Wounded Knee But there is more buried in his grave Than the wisest men could see I have dreamed the vision of the horse that dances wild I have seen the land of the Great Beyond I am one with this Earth as a little child Let my eternal life shine on I have dreamed the vision of the horse that dances wild I have seen the land of the Great Beyond I am one with this Earth as a little child Let my eternal life shine on Crazy Horse he was laid to rest On a creek called Wounded Knee But there is more buried in his grave Than the wisest men could see Crazy Horse he was laid to rest On a creek called Wounded Knee But there is more buried in his grave Than the wisest men could see Crazy Horse he was laid to rest On a creek called Wounded Knee But there is more buried in his grave Than the wisest men could see Milkweed illusion casts its die And the horse that dances starts to fly Rhythms of metamorphosis leave their stain Memories of happiness kept in vain The target tomorrow is one step beyond For lilies of mercy lost on a pond They cry out for freedom to the lighthouse above They are angels of victory, peace and love Visions of odin dark and oblique Mind over matter which all men seek A vague understanding with no recourse And a fond remembrance .... of Crazy Horse Just ride away And travel right out through space and time Try and find a way Of leaving the illusion behind And in this sleep your mind will be awakened To the calling of a dream that lies within You're just a child who has but to remember That in yourself you just found your best friend So ride away And let your mind go through its metamorphosis And try and find a way To bring your sunken love back to the surface Sail on silver clouds straight through the fire Like a lily pad adrift on a windless sea Clinging to the breast of Mother Nature Together sailing beautiful and free Ride away It's said that Crazy Horse had the power to dream himself into the real world And leave the illusion behind [Double Chant] So ride away And don't recall the things that are best forgotten And try and find a way Of picking from the barrel the one that's rotten The key to peace is sitting on your shoulders So knock upon the door and you walk on in You're just a child who has but to remember That in yourself you just found your best friend So ride away Ride away So ride away Ride away So ride away Ride away Crazy Horse he was laid to rest On a creek called Wounded Knee..
Wopila to whoever posted this. Wz 19 in 1978 when first heard the album. Wz unlike anything we ever listened to. Still powerful after all these years. From rosebud sd.
My Grandfather got me onto this song when I was a kid. He died in February 2014. He chose Lakota as his way of life, and was adopted into the Mohegan tribe. We were granted permission to scatter his ashes at Wounded Knee, and I personally will forever be grateful to those who let us do that last service to him and his memory.
I own this c.d. heard it in the 70s and couldn't remember the name for a long time....now can't remember how I found out...probably asked my relative who first discovered it. And we heard it on The King Biscuit Flower hour. And yes last part of song missing.
I gave thumbs down because although The Song of Crazy Horse is probably the BEST song/story I've ever listened to, the creator this video spoiled the experience for all of us by failing to include the most beautiful song of all... the last... "Ride Away" 😭
I'm sorry I spoiled your listening experience. The only version I got to make the video was this one and I made an effort to translate it into my language: "Portuguese". JD Blackfoot is not known in my country and I didn't know about this song at the end. Anyway, thank you for being with us here on the channel and may the soul of our ancestor "Tashunka Witko" (Crazy Horse) remain in our warrior hearts! Ahow!
@@nixonalessandrodasilva8910 awe... I'm sorry to have complained! You did the best you could and that's all any of us can do. I love the album and especially "Ride Away," so sorry I whined. You didn't spoil my listening experience. I must have hurt your feelings and I'm so sorry. 😭
I have a little girl she is the great one, she is only 4, I am her grandmother I am Irish and I am 60 . I know what I am looking at I see it. She is supposedly Mexican Puerto Rican. She will say some shit that will blow your mind. Her dad was bouncing her rocky horse, had his hand on the head of the rocky horse and he said jump on. She said "no....my pony needs a blanket" Then I went some where in my head for about 4 seconds, I was there and felt the heat of the day and could smell the horses and she was sitting on one that did not have a saddle , it was a blanket. I would like to know how in the hell does she know this.
I am the original creator of this lyric video (not the music, thank JD Blackfoot for that) and of course UA-cam deleted it a few years ago. I'm pleased to see it is still online. Thank you for keeping this song alive, the facts of American history should not be forgotten.
Nice to meet you, friend. I was so moved by this song that I took advantage of your lyric video to translate it into my language. Thank you very much. I will mention your channel in the video description. Long live the Lakota people
So why did you not include the most beautiful track of all... the last one... "Ride Away" ???
Awesome song
Fantastic job for a legendary warrior
It was removed because JD told them too he feels he's getting ripped off of sales he owns the rights to his music he just wants you sell to know time come to his website and you can buy his CDs I did and he use to autograph them I'm not sure I can mention his website on here but it's Friends of JD Blackfoot..look him up he's not doing good I think he was working on a vinyl reissue of this LP
I grew up listening to this on K-SHE 95. I live in Las Vegas now. You don't here any music like kshe classics plays for us. It's sad that the rest of the U.S. doesn't know this music. Keep it up kshe, love yo'all.
GO BLUES!!! GOON SQUAD!!!
I agree ! I grew up in Peerless Park or unincorporated St. Louis county . The KSHE DJ's loved this and the Ultimate Prophecy because the had time to smoke or use the Bathroom . Remember going to the window ?
Hard to believe that this song is 50 yes. old..
I heard this song for the first time when my father was alive. He was all about the native people.
Yes KSHE used to play this music back in the day, now they just play the usual LZ, WHO, every day. I stopped listening years ago. This song is so good. I really like the bass line.
So glad I was introduced to this man's music when I was young. One of the greatest stories told in a way that speaks truth.
Best song ever written
Indeed.
Awesome just Awesome
And so eirily true!! Makes me ashamed to be white!! I grieve for the native Americans! They were so fucked!!
I agree 100 percent !!! My favorite song of all time !!!
JD is a good guy ! I grew up listen to this in the late 70's on KSHE in St Louis . Had the Honor of meeting him a few years ago.
Awesome !!!!
i grew up listening to KSHE95 and i heard this song several times
Same here...Back when we'd go down to Peaches for all of our music needs! or just to look at and read all the footprints and signatures in the front.
@davidchapman2213 I bought sooo my LPs from Peaches
we were lucky to have Kshe they exposed us to all the great stuff
You took his land and you ate his corn
And on his grave your land was born
You took his pride and you fed him dirt
You wished him winter without a shirt
And you called this red man "Savage"
And after you crushed him you helped him up
To let him drink from an empty cup
You gave him the Navy without the fleet
And made him lick your hands and kiss your feet
And you named this mad dog "Savage"
Well I found a book the other day
So I looked up red and white to see what it'd say
One was a savage the other unlearned
Like a look in the mirror the tables were turned
For history has named you "Savage"
In the year of '65
When I was very young
We watched the dust clouds to the South
We knew that you had come
We saw you build your chain of forts
Along the Bozeman Road
But Red Cloud had his allies counted
Long before it snowed
And someday Great White Father you will know my name
In December of '66
You met me face to face
I decoyed your Captain Fetterman
And we never left a trace
Into our sacred homelands
Your bluecoat soldiers came
But we just taught you a heap big lesson
In the Battle of a Hundred Slain
And someday Great White Father you will know my name
In the June of '76
Our Nation joined its hands
We made our camps on the Little Big Horn
Not knowing of your plans
You sent your long-haired Custer
With the Seventh Cavalry
To hunt and kill my children
For wanting to be free
And I think it's time Great White Father that you knew my name
It's Crazy Horse, it's Crazy Horse
And I wish you were here to see
Cause I got Yellow Hair cornered at the Big Horn
And I'm about to set him free
Ride to the village to get my Oglalas'
The Sans Arc and the Minneconjous'
Get Sitting Bull with his band of Hunkpapas'
The Brules' and Blackfoots too
Ridin' home from battle came the Cheyenne ponies
With white blood drippin' from their feet
Their riders were lookin' and shoutin' up to Heaven
Here's to Chivington at Sand Creek
Hey there Mister Wagonmaster what do you have inside
Hidden underneath of that buffalo hide
Could it be you brought to me some food from the man back East
So my starving children could have a feast
Hey mother come look and see
What the master done brought to me
It's alcohol, tobacco and guns
Alcohol, tobacco and guns
Now I have seen the eagle soaring beautiful and free
I don't want no man to make less of me
Do you take me for a fool or as a little child
And do you really wonder what's made me wild
Hey paleface you better run
Because my men been havin' lots of fun
On your alcohol, tobacco, and guns
Alcohol, tobacco and guns
I have waited patiently for you to pay your rent
But as yet I haven't seen that first red cent
I don't think that there's much chance of me evicting you
But watch out for the day that you get Sioux'd
A hundred years have seen the setting sun
But his sad country still is run
On his alcohol, tobacco, and guns
Alcohol, tobacco, and guns
A hundred years have seen the setting sun
But his sad country still is run
On his alcohol, tobacco, and guns
Alcohol, tobacco, and guns
Now you try to trick me
And lock me up in jail
Where would a stupid savage
Find the bondsman or the bail
I turn to run for I am scared
I want so to be free
I feel the ice-cold bayonet
As it sinks deep inside of me
But someday Great White Father you'll remember me
Sioux warriors teach your children
The white man's evil tongue
Make them know the name of Crazy Horse
And the battles he has won
So they will know the truth
When it's knowledge that they crave
Let them sing of the Land of the Free
And the Home of the Brave
And of the Great White Father that dug my grave
Brown rivers once were blue
Now the fish float upside-down
Ancestral burial grounds
That's where you've built your towns
The smokestacks from your factories
They pollute my skies
You slaughtered all my buffalo
And you left me here to die
And all of this you have done in the name of God
Crazy Horse he was laid to rest
On a creek called Wounded Knee
But there is more buried in his grave
Than the wisest men could see
I have dreamed the vision of the horse that dances wild
I have seen the land of the Great Beyond
I am one with this Earth as a little child
Let my eternal life shine on
I have dreamed the vision of the horse that dances wild
I have seen the land of the Great Beyond
I am one with this Earth as a little child
Let my eternal life shine on
Crazy Horse he was laid to rest
On a creek called Wounded Knee
But there is more buried in his grave
Than the wisest men could see
Crazy Horse he was laid to rest
On a creek called Wounded Knee
But there is more buried in his grave
Than the wisest men could see
Crazy Horse he was laid to rest
On a creek called Wounded Knee
But there is more buried in his grave
Than the wisest men could see
Milkweed illusion casts its die
And the horse that dances starts to fly
Rhythms of metamorphosis leave their stain
Memories of happiness kept in vain
The target tomorrow is one step beyond
For lilies of mercy lost on a pond
They cry out for freedom to the lighthouse above
They are angels of victory, peace and love
Visions of odin dark and oblique
Mind over matter which all men seek
A vague understanding with no recourse
And a fond remembrance .... of Crazy Horse
Just ride away
And travel right out through space and time
Try and find a way
Of leaving the illusion behind
And in this sleep your mind will be awakened
To the calling of a dream that lies within
You're just a child who has but to remember
That in yourself you just found your best friend
So ride away
And let your mind go through its metamorphosis
And try and find a way
To bring your sunken love back to the surface
Sail on silver clouds straight through the fire
Like a lily pad adrift on a windless sea
Clinging to the breast of Mother Nature
Together sailing beautiful and free
Ride away
It's said that Crazy Horse had the power to dream himself into the real world
And leave the illusion behind
[Double Chant]
So ride away
And don't recall the things that are best forgotten
And try and find a way
Of picking from the barrel the one that's rotten
The key to peace is sitting on your shoulders
So knock upon the door and you walk on in
You're just a child who has but to remember
That in yourself you just found your best friend
So ride away
Ride away
So ride away
Ride away
So ride away
Ride away
Crazy Horse he was laid to rest
On a creek called Wounded Knee..
What the BASTARD done brought to me
Been looking for this for ages. Won't play anywhere else.
Wopila to whoever posted this. Wz 19 in 1978 when first heard the album. Wz unlike anything we ever listened to. Still powerful after all these years. From rosebud sd.
So powerful. Thank you Mr. Blackfoot.
My Grandfather got me onto this song when I was a kid. He died in February 2014. He chose Lakota as his way of life, and was adopted into the Mohegan tribe. We were granted permission to scatter his ashes at Wounded Knee, and I personally will forever be grateful to those who let us do that last service to him and his memory.
musically and lyrically this is gold, just gold
Yellow hair cornered n set free. Love it
Heard this & Ultimate Prophesy for the first time in the late 70’s at around age 18. I still remember where I was when I heard it. 10/10…A Masterpiece
thanx for posting album version.....such a great work.
Strength and honor
what a perfect song, thank you JD!
You missed out the best bit at the end
The chant
Exactly! I can't believe that "Ride Away" wasn't even included!
I own this c.d. heard it in the 70s and couldn't remember the name for a long time....now can't remember how I found out...probably asked my relative who first discovered it. And we heard it on The King Biscuit Flower hour. And yes last part of song missing.
Always brings a tear to my eyes😢
What a song what a poem. Truth.
I cry when I hear this and I have hope
Thank you this song means so much to me
Saw him 2X in St Louis
My names on the album with my wife Norm & Rebecca Bean
Interessante
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Such incredible music
...essential music...
Maybe we can get KSHE to spin it again!!!!
KSHE95
Still stays
So amazing
I gave thumbs down because although The Song of Crazy Horse is probably the BEST song/story I've ever listened to, the creator this video spoiled the experience for all of us by failing to include the most beautiful song of all... the last... "Ride Away" 😭
I'm sorry I spoiled your listening experience. The only version I got to make the video was this one and I made an effort to translate it into my language: "Portuguese". JD Blackfoot is not known in my country and I didn't know about this song at the end. Anyway, thank you for being with us here on the channel and may the soul of our ancestor "Tashunka Witko" (Crazy Horse) remain in our warrior hearts! Ahow!
True you are right about the song but how many people ever heard of it
Unless you listen to kshe you probably won't the greatest radio station to ever be
@@nixonalessandrodasilva8910 awe... I'm sorry to have complained! You did the best you could and that's all any of us can do. I love the album and especially "Ride Away," so sorry I whined. You didn't spoil my listening experience. I must have hurt your feelings and I'm so sorry. 😭
Rest assured, my friend! It didn't hurt my feelings no! A wonderful week for you and all our beloved red people!@@nightbaby5101
Was not the full song???
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A serious note on my childhood.
I have a little girl she is the great one, she is only 4, I am her grandmother I am Irish and I am 60 . I know what I am looking at I see it. She is supposedly Mexican Puerto Rican. She will say some shit that will blow your mind. Her dad was bouncing her rocky horse, had his hand on the head of the rocky horse and he said jump on. She said "no....my pony needs a blanket" Then I went some where in my head for about 4 seconds, I was there and felt the heat of the day and could smell the horses and she was sitting on one that did not have a saddle , it was a blanket. I would like to know how in the hell does she know this.
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