Where is Wounded Knee

©2021 Scott Halvorson / 5050songs Inc (ASCAP)
Release Date: 2/25/2021
Track duration: 03:59
ISRC: uscgj2138446
UPC: 195999712673
Produced by Demo My Song®

Lyrics

Wanderinʼ the Badlands, lost in South Dakota,
I pulled into Pine Ridge to buy some gas – o – line,
I watched a gray Sioux grandpa sellinʼ dreamcatchers by the road,
I said, “Where is Wounded Knee, the battle field, I mean?”
He looked at me for a moment, as if I might be joking,
I said, “I must have missed the signs showinʼ me the way.”
“You didnʼt miss a thing,” he said, “youʼre standinʼ on the ground.”
He noted my confusion, so he raised his hand to say…

“Itʼs here up to that ridge, down to the creek over there,
“Itʼs all around you-oooooooooooooooohh, Itʼs everywhere.”

It struck me then just how much he sounded like my fatherʼs father,
Whose mother crossed an ocean to lie in this hard land…
I traded Jacksonʼs face for a red and white dreamcatcher,
And walked thru the killing field alone, thinkinʻ “Iʼll be damned…

“Itʼs here up to that ridge, down to the creek over there,
“Itʼs all around you-oooohhhhhh Itʼs everywhere.”

Hanginʼ over the prairie, clouds like graves in the air,
It seemed the ghosts were dancinnnnnng–ohhhhhh, everywhere.