Johnny Cash - Big Foot [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

[Verse 1]
But the land was already claimed by a people when the cowboy came and when the soldiers came
The story of the American Indian is in a lot of ways a story of tragedy
Like that day at Wounded Knee, South Dakota

[Verse 2]
Big Foot was an Indian chief
Of the Minneconjou band
A band of Minneconjou Sioux
From South Dakota land

[Verse 3]
Big Foot said to Custer
Stay away from Crazy Horse
But Custer crossed into Sioux land
And he never came back across

[Verse 4]
Then Big Foot led his people
To a place called Wounded Knee
And they found themselves surrounded
By the 7th Cavalry

[Verse 5]
Big chief Big Foot
Rise up from your bed
Minneconjou babies cry
For their mothers lying dead

[Verse 6]
Big Foot was down with a fever
When he reached Wounded Knee
And his people all were prisoners
Of the 7th Cavalry

[Verse 7]
Two hundred women and children
And another hundred men
Raised up a white flag of peace
But peace did not begin

[Verse 8]
An accidental gunshot
And Big Foot was first to die
And over the noise of the rifles
You could hear the babies cry

[Verse 9]
Big chief Big Foot
It's good that you can't see
Revenge is being wrought
By Custer's 7th Cavalry

[Verse 10]
Then smoke hung over the canyon
On that cold December day
All was death and dying
Around where Big Foot lay

[Verse 11]
Farther on up the canyon
Some had tried to run and hide
But death showed no favorites
Women, men, and children died

[Verse 12]
One side called it a massacre
The other a "victory
But the white flag is still waving
Today at Wounded Knee

[Outro]
Big chief Big Foot
Your Minneconjou band
Is more than remembered here
In South Dakota land