โหลดเพลง mp3 The Ballad Of Ira Hayes (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - December 1969) - Johnny Cash

The Ballad Of Ira Hayes - Johnny Cash
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore

Not the whiskey drinking Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war

Gather round me people there's a story I would tell

About a brave young Indian you should remember well

From the land of the Pima Indian
A proud and noble band
Who farmed the Phoenix valley in Arizona land

Down the ditches for a thousand years
The water grew Ira's peoples crops
Till the white man stole the water rights
And the sparkling water stopped

Now Ira's folks were hungry

And their land grew crops of weeds
When war came, Ira volunteered
And forgot the white man's greed

Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore

Not the whiskey drinking Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war

There they battled up Iwo Jima's hill,
Two hundred and fifty men
But only twenty-seven lived to walk back down again

And when the fight was over
And when Old Glory raised

Among the men who held it high
Was the Indian, Ira Hayes
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore

Not the whiskey drinking Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war

Ira returned a hero
Celebrated through the land

He was wined and speeched and honored;

Everybody shook his hand

But he was just a Pima Indian

No water, no crops, no chance
At home nobody cared what Ira'd done
And when did the Indians dance

Then Ira started drinking hard;

Jail was often his home
They'd let him raise the flag and lower it
like you'd throw a dog a bone!

He died drunk one morning
Alone in the land he fought to save

Two inches of water in a lonely ditch
Was a grave for Ira Hayes

Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore

Not the whiskey drinking Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war

Yeah, call him drunken Ira Hayes

But his land is just as dry

And his ghost is lying thirsty
In the ditch where Ira died