《The Ballad of IRA Hayes》歌词

[00:00:00] The Ballad of IRA Hayes - The Hit Crew (热歌组合)

[00:00:12] Ira Hayes Ira Hayes

[00:00:20] Call him drunken Ira Hayes

[00:00:23] He won't answer anymore

[00:00:26] Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian

[00:00:28] Nor the Marine that went to war

[00:00:37] Gather round me people

[00:00:40] There's a story I would tell

[00:00:42] About a brave young Indian

[00:00:45] You should remember well

[00:00:47] From the land of the Pima Indian

[00:00:50] A proud and noble band

[00:00:53] Who farmed the Phoenix valley in Arizona land

[00:00:58] Down the ditches of thousand years

[00:01:01] The waters grew Ira's people's crops

[00:01:04] Till the white man stole the water rights

[00:01:06] And the sparklin' water stopped

[00:01:09] Now Ira's folks were hungry

[00:01:11] And their land grew crops of weeds

[00:01:14] When war came Ira volunteered

[00:01:17] And forgot the white man's greed

[00:01:20] Call him drunken Ira Hayes

[00:01:23] He won't answer anymore

[00:01:26] Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian

[00:01:28] Nor the Marine that went to war

[00:01:34] There they battled up Iwo Jima's hill

[00:01:37] Two hundred and fifty men

[00:01:40] But only twenty seven lived

[00:01:42] To walk back down again

[00:01:45] And when the fight was over

[00:01:48] And Old Glory raised

[00:01:50] Among the men who held it high

[00:01:52] Was the Indian Ira Hayes

[00:02:03] Call him drunken Ira Hayes

[00:02:05] He won't answer anymore

[00:02:08] Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian

[00:02:10] Nor the Marine that went to war

[00:02:18] Ira Hayes returned a hero

[00:02:22] Celebrated through the land

[00:02:25] He was wined and speeched and honored

[00:02:28] Everybody shook his hand

[00:02:30] But he was just a Pima Indian

[00:02:33] No water no home no chance

[00:02:36] At home nobody cared what Ira'd done

[00:02:38] And when did the Indians dance

[00:02:41] Call him drunken Ira Hayes

[00:02:44] He won't answer anymore

[00:02:47] Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian

[00:02:49] Nor the Marine that went to war

[00:02:55] Then Ira started drinkin' hard

[00:02:58] Jail was often his home

[00:03:01] They'd let him raise the flag and lower it

[00:03:04] Like you'd throw a dog a bone

[00:03:08] He died drunk early one mornin'

[00:03:12] Alone in the land he fought to save

[00:03:14] Two inches of water in a lonely ditch

[00:03:17] Was a grave for Ira Hayes

[00:03:20] Call him drunken Ira Hayes

[00:03:23] He won't answer anymore

[00:03:26] Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian

[00:03:28] Nor the Marine that went to war

[00:03:33] Yeah call him drunken Ira Hayes

[00:03:37] But his land is just as dry

[00:03:40] And his ghost is lyin' thirsty

[00:03:42] In the ditch where Ira died