Dreams of a Kitten by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Dreams of a Kitten

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We watched the dust clouds to the South

We knew that you had come

We saw you build your chain of forts

Along the Bozeman Road

But Red Cloud had his allies counted

Long before it snowed

And someday Great White Father you will know my name

In December of '66

You met me face to face

I decoyed your Captain Fetterman

And we never left a trace

Into our sacred homelands

Your bluecoat soldiers came

But we just taught you a heap big lesson

In the Battle of a Hundred Slain

And someday Great White Father you will know my name

In the June of '76

Our Nation joined its hands

We made our camps on the Little Big Horn

Not knowing of your plans

You sent your long-haired Custer

With the Seventh Cavalry

To hunt and kill my children

For wanting to be free

And I think it's time Great White Father

that you knew my name

It's Crazy Horse, it's Crazy Horse

And I wish you were here to see

Cause I got Yellow Hair cornered at the Big Horn

And I'm about to set him free

Ride to the village to get my Oglalas'

The Sans Arc and the Minneconjous'

Get Sitting Bull with his band of Hunkpapas'

The Brules' and Blackfoots too

Ridin' home from battle came the Cheyenne ponies

With white blood drippin' from their feet

Their riders were lookin' and shoutin' up to Heaven

Here's to Chivington at Sand Creek

Hey there Mister Wagonmaster what do you have inside

Hidden underneath of that buffalo hide

Could it be you brought to me some food from the man back East

So my starving children could have a feast