SEARCH HERE: BROWSE 409412 LYRICS BY ARTIST/BAND NAME: #A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z SITE MENU Last Updates Request Lyrics Submit / Correct Popularity Charts VISITORS Login / Register Your Thoughts My Playlists [ More Joni Mitchell lyrics ] add to playlist     see a mistake?    comment Artist/Band: Joni Mitchell Lyrics for Song: Lakota Lyrics for Album: The Complete Geffen Recordings [2007] I am Lakota! Lakota! Looking at money man-- Diggin' the deadly quotas-- Out of balance-- Out of hand We want the land! Lay down the reeking ore! Don't you hear the shrieking in the trees? Everywhere you touch the earth--she's sore Every time you skin her all things weep Your money mocks us-- Restitution--what good can it do?-- Kennelled in metered boxes Red dogs in debt to you I am Lakota! Lakota! Fighting among ourselves All we can say with one whole heart Is we won't sell-- No we'll never sell We want the land! The lonely coyote calls In the woodlands--footprints of the deer In the barrooms--poor drunk bastard falls In the courtrooms--deaf ears--sixty years You think we're sleeping--but Quietly like rattlesnakes and stars We have seen the trampled rainbows In the smoke of cars I am Lakota Brave Sun pity me I am Lakota Broken Moon pity me I am Lakota Grave Shadows stretching Lakota Oh pity me I am Lakota Weak Grass pity me I am Lakota Faithful Rocks pity me I am Lakota Meek Standing water Lakota Oh pity me I am Lakota! Lakota! Standing on sacred land We never sold these Black Hills To the missile-heads-- To the power plants We want the land! The bullet and the fence--broke Lakota The black coats and the booze--broke Lakota Courts that circumvent--choke Lakota Nothing left to lose Tell me grandfather You spoke the fur and feather tongues-- Do you hear the whimpering waters When the tractors come? Repeat Chorus Sun pity me Mother earth Mother Moon pity me Father sky Father Shadows Stretching on the forest floor Mother earth Oh pity me Father sky Father Grass pity me Mother earth Mother Rocks pity me Father sky Father Water Standing in a wakan manner Mother earth Oh pity me Š1988 Crazy Crow Music BMI Album Lyrics: The Complete Geffen Recordings [2007] Joni Mitchell "The Complete Geffen Recordings [2007]" 1. The Windfall (everything For Nothing) 2. Dog Eat Dog 3. Fiction 4. The Beat Of Black Wings 5. The Three Great Stimulants 6. Lakota 7. Ethiopia 8. Cool Water 9. Tax Free 10. Impossible Dreamer 11. My Secret Place 12. Number One 13. Dancin' Clown 14. Snakes And Ladders 15. A Bird That Whistles 16. Good Friends 17. Shiny Toys 18. Lucky Girl 19. Nothing Can Be Done 20. Come In From The Cold 21. Passion Play (when All The Slaves Are Free) 22. You Dream Flat Tires 23. Be Cool 24. Cherokee Louise 25. Night Ride Home 26. The Only Joy In Town 27. Ray's Dad's Cadillac 28. Two Grey Rooms 29. Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody 30. Wild Things Run Fast 31. Ladies' Man 32. Moon At The Window 33. Solid Love 34. Man To Man 35. Underneath The Streetlight