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Johnny Cash:
From the Indian reservation to the governmental school
Well, they're going to educate me to the white man's golden rule
And I'm learning very quickly for I've learned to be ashamed
And I come when they call Billy though I've got an Indian name
Johnny and Carter Sisters:
And there are drums beyond the mountains
Indian drums that you can't hear
There are drums beyond the mountains
And they're getting mighty near
Johnny:
And when they think that they've changed me cut my hair to meet their needs
Will they think I'm white or Indian, quarter blood or just half breed
Let me tell you Mr. Teacher when you say you'll make me right
In five hundred years of fighting not one Indian turned white
Johnny and Carter Sisters:
And there are drums beyond the mountains
Indian drums that you can't hear
There are drums beyond the mountains
And they're getting mighty near
Johnny:
Well, you thought that I knew nothing when you brought me here to school
Just another empty Indian just America's first fool
But now I can tell you stories that are burnt and dried and old
But in the shadow of their telling walks the thunder proud and bold
Johnny and Carter Sisters:
And there are drums beyond the mountains
Indian drums that you can't hear
There are drums beyond the mountains
And they're getting mighty near
Johnny:
Long Pine and Sequoia, Handsome Lake and Sitting Bull
There's Magnus Colorado with his sleeves so red and full
Crazy Horse the legend, those who bit off Custer's soul
They are dead, yet they are living with the great Geronimo
Johnny and Carter Sisters:
And there are drums beyond the mountains
Indian drums that you can't hear
There are drums beyond the mountains
And they're getting mighty near
Johnny:
Well, you may teach me this land's history but we taught it to you first
We broke your hearts and bent your journeys, broken treaties left us cursed
Even now you have to cheat us even though you think us tame
In our losing we found proudness, in your winning you found shame
Johnny and Carter Sisters:
And there are drums beyond the mountains
Indian drums that you can't hear
There are drums beyond the mountains And they're getting mighty near
Johnny Cash:
From the Indian reservation to the governmental school
Well, they're going to educate me to the white man's golden rule
And I'm learning very quickly for I've learned to be ashamed
And I come when they call Billy though I've got an Indian name
Johnny and Carter Sisters:
And there are drums beyond the mountains
Indian drums that you can't hear
There are drums beyond the mountains
And they're getting mighty near
Johnny:
And when they think that they've changed me cut my hair to meet their needs
Will they think I'm white or Indian, quarter blood or just half breed
Let me tell you Mr. Teacher when you say you'll make me right
In five hundred years of fighting not one Indian turned white
Johnny and Carter Sisters:
And there are drums beyond the mountains
Indian drums that you can't hear
There are drums beyond the mountains
And they're getting mighty near
Johnny:
Well, you thought that I knew nothing when you brought me here to school
Just another empty Indian just America's first fool
But now I can tell you stories that are burnt and dried and old
But in the shadow of their telling walks the thunder proud and bold
Johnny and Carter Sisters:
And there are drums beyond the mountains
Indian drums that you can't hear
There are drums beyond the mountains
And they're getting mighty near
Johnny:
Long Pine and Sequoia, Handsome Lake and Sitting Bull
There's Magnus Colorado with his sleeves so red and full
Crazy Horse the legend, those who bit off Custer's soul
They are dead, yet they are living with the great Geronimo
Johnny and Carter Sisters:
And there are drums beyond the mountains
Indian drums that you can't hear
There are drums beyond the mountains
And they're getting mighty near
Johnny:
Well, you may teach me this land's history but we taught it to you first
We broke your hearts and bent your journeys, broken treaties left us cursed
Even now you have to cheat us even though you think us tame
In our losing we found proudness, in your winning you found shame
Johnny and Carter Sisters:
And there are drums beyond the mountains
Indian drums that you can't hear
There are drums beyond the mountains And they're getting mighty near
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