Elton John - Indian Sunset Lyrics
Music by elton johnLyrics by bernie taupinAvailable on the album madman across the waterAs I awoke this evening with the smell of wood smoke clingingLike a gentle cobweb hanging upon a painted tepeeOh I went to see my chieftain with my warlance and my womanFor he told us that the yellow moon would very soon be leavingThis I cant believe I said, I cant believe our warlords deadOh he would not leave the chosen ones to the buzzards and the soldiers gunsOh great father of the iroquois ever since I was youngIve read the writing of the smoke and breast fed on the sound of drumsIve learned to hurl the tomahawk and ride a painted pony wildTo run the gauntlet of the sioux, to make a chieftains daughter mineAnd now you ask that I should watchThe red mans race be slowly crushedWhat kind of words are these to hearFrom yellow dog whom white man fearsI take only what is mine lord, my pony, my squaw, and my childI cant stay to see you die along with my tribes prideI go to search for the yellow moon and the fathers of our sonsWhere the red sun sinks in the hills of gold and the healing waters runTrampling down the prairie rose leaving hoof tracks in the sandThose who wish to follow me I welcome with my handsI heard from passing renegades geronimo was deadHed been laying down his weapons when they filled him full of leadNow there seems no reason why I should carry onIn this land that once was my land I cant find a homeIts lonely and its quiet and the horse soldiers are comingAnd I think its time I strung my bow and ceased my senseless runningFor soon Ill find the yellow moon along with my loved onesWhere the buffalos graze in clover fields without the sound of gunsAnd the red sun sinks at last into the hills of goldAnd peace to this young warrior comes with a bullet hole
