The Ballad of IRA Hayes-Done Again

[ti:The Ballad of IRA Hayes] [ar:Done Again] [al:The Ballad of IRA Hayes] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Ballad of IRA Hayes - Done Again (又一次乐队) [00:12.82]Ira Hayes Ira Hayes [00:18.67] [00:19.20]Call him drunken Ira Hayes [00:22.63]He won't answer anymore [00:24.26] [00:25.44]Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian [00:28.11]Nor the Marine that went to war [00:30.38] [00:37.42]Gather round me people there's a story I would tell [00:41.08] [00:42.50]About a brave young Indian you should remember well [00:46.41] [00:47.89]From the land of the Pima Indian [00:50.82]A proud and noble band [00:52.21] [00:53.24]Who farmed the Phoenix valley in Arizona land [00:58.02] [00:58.94]Down the ditches for a thousand years [01:01.51]The water grew Ira's peoples' crops [01:03.40] [01:04.22]'Till the white man stole the water rights [01:06.68]And the sparklin' water stopped [01:08.24] [01:09.74]Now Ira's folks were hungry [01:11.12] [01:12.04]And their land grew crops of weeds [01:13.81] [01:14.84]When war came Ira volunteered [01:16.89] [01:17.67]And forgot the white man's greed [01:19.57] [01:20.76]Call him drunken Ira Hayes [01:23.64]He won't answer anymore [01:25.66] [01:26.57]Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian [01:29.18]Nor the Marine that went to war [01:31.30] [01:34.34]There they battled up Iwo Jima's hill [01:37.35] [01:37.92]Two hundred and fifty men [01:39.26] [01:40.38]But only twenty-seven lived to walk back down again [01:44.78] [01:46.14]And when the fight was over [01:48.38]And when Old Glory raised [01:49.90] [01:51.18]Among the men who held it high [01:53.69]Was the Indian Ira Hayes [01:56.34] [02:04.27]Call him drunken Ira Hayes [02:06.55] [02:07.18]He won't answer anymore [02:09.40] [02:09.99]Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian [02:12.53]Nor the Marine that went to war [02:14.79] [02:20.69]Ira Hayes returned a hero [02:22.90] [02:23.53]Celebrated through the land [02:25.20] [02:26.21]He was wined and speeched and honored; [02:28.24] [02:29.28]Everybody shook his hand [02:30.67] [02:31.76]But he was just a Pima Indian [02:33.47] [02:34.44]No water no crops no chance [02:36.19] [02:37.27]At home nobody cared what Ira'd done [02:40.09]And when did the Indians dance [02:41.26] [02:43.47]Call him drunken Ira Hayes [02:46.26]He won't answer anymore [02:48.22] [02:49.03]Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian [02:51.67]Nor the Marine that went to war [02:54.24] [02:58.17]Then Ira started drinkin' hard; [03:00.32] [03:01.20]Jail was often his home [03:02.82] [03:03.38]They'd let him raise the flag and lower it [03:05.84]Like you'd throw a dog a bone [03:07.70] [03:10.70]He died drunk one mornin' [03:12.43] [03:13.82]Alone in the land he fought to save [03:15.98] [03:17.07]Two inches of water in a lonely ditch [03:19.77]Was a grave for Ira Hayes [03:21.21] [03:22.76]Call him drunken Ira Hayes [03:25.54]He won't answer anymore [03:27.78] [03:28.49]Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian [03:30.99]Nor the Marine that went to war [03:33.10] [03:36.07]Yeah call him drunken Ira Hayes [03:38.61] [03:39.65]But his land is just as dry [03:41.62] [03:42.67]And his ghost is lyin' thirsty [03:44.45] [03:45.00]In the ditch where Ira died