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The Ballad of the Choctaw-Apache
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Vincent Neil Emerson
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Well the East Texas wind was whistlin' through the pines And I followed it down to Lousiane There is a tribe and it ain't too hard to find Where the rich man came and flooded all the land They had no mercy on the people old and young They were blinded by the silver on their tongues All the land that they take, just to build themselves a lake Well it ain't worth all the lives that you forsake Well 180,000 acres of ancestral land That's all been river bottom, flooded by the dam I am a proud Choctaw-Apache man But it just don't mean a thing to the faces in your hand Well back in 1963 the land of the proud, the brace and the free But it ain't that way for everyone you see They washed out the land so be careful where you stand Like a boulder fallin' on a grain of sand Well I hope that dirty reservoir was worth all the lives you scarred And the people you left hangin' out to dry If they try their best to turn the tide But there ain't no sense in waitin' 'round to die Well 180,000 acres of ancestral land That's all been river bottom, flooded by the dam I am a proud Choctaw-Apache man But it just don't mean a thing to the faces in your hand Well my granny was a native from the parish of Sabine And she raised her children the best way she knew how They lived off the Earth back before the times of dearth They counted on the seed and the plow But the crops they all drowned in the water rushin' down Only 25 bucks an acre they were paid Well you take away their home then you claim what you don't own Well I guess it's still the American way Well 180,000 acres of ancestral land That's all been river bottom, flooded by the dam I am a proud Choctaw-Apache man But it just don't mean a thing Oh it just don't mean a thing Well it just don't mean a thing To the faces in your hand
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