Indian Sunset lyrics

Artist  : Elton John 
Song : Indian Sunset
 
As I awoke this evening with the smell of wood
smoke clinging

Like a gentle cobweb hanging upon a painted
teepee

Oh I went to see my chieftain with my warlance
and my woman

For he told us that the yellow moon would very
soon be leaving

This I can't believe I said, I can't believe our
warlord's dead

Oh he would not leave the chosen ones to the
buzzards and the soldiers guns



Oh great father of the Iroquois ever since I was
young

I've read the writing of the smoke and breast fed
on the sound of drums

I've learned to hurl the tomahawk and ride a
painted pony wild

To run the gauntlet of the Sioux, to make a
chieftain's daughter mine



And now you ask that I should watch

The red man's race be slowly crushed

What kind of words are these to hear

From Yellow Dog whom white man fears



I take only what is mine Lord, my pony, my squaw,
and my child

I can't stay to see you die along with my tribe's
pride

I go to search for the yellow moon and the
fathers of our sons

Where the red sun sinks in the hills of gold and
the healing waters run



Trampling down the prairie rose leaving hoof
tracks in the sand

Those who wish to follow me I welcome with my
hands

I heard from passing renegades Geronimo was
dead

He'd been laying down his weapons when they
filled him full of lead



Now there seems no reason why I should carry
on

In this land that once was my land I can't find a
home

It's lonely and it's quiet and the horse soldiers
are coming

And I think it's time I strung my bow and ceased
my senseless running

For soon I'll find the yellow moon along with my
loved ones

Where the buffaloes graze in clover fields
without the sound of guns



And the red sun sinks at last into the hills of
gold

And peace to this young warrior comes with a
bullet hole