Standing Rock
All the Tribes__Come joining hands___Stand together on Indian land_
Passive resistance__peaceful prayers___Move that pipeline on outta there__Hoka Hey !
Company thugs__soldiers and cops____Inciting violence as tear gas drops__
They can arrest but they cannot stop___The Showdown at Standing Rock__ Hoka Hey!
Life is Water and Water is Life____Walk the line ‘tween Earth and Sky__
Honor your Mother__do Her no harm__Leave the damn oil in the ground__
Hear the wind singin’ in the sun__Power for all___Not Just for some___Hoka Hey!
As the dust settles in the grass__this too__will surely pass___
In the Scars left on the land__and in the Heart of the Indian__
Grow the Seeds of victory__right the wrongs of history__ Hoka Hey!
Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull__Seen enough__they had their fill__
At Wounded Knee__the soldiers killed__for control in them Black Hills__
To the end__the Sioux would fight__ to defend their Way of Life.
Hoka Hey !___It’s a_ good day to__ Be__ A__live__
Take your damn pipeline away___That’s Tribal Land any_way___
Two hundred years it’s still the same____Out on the Rez__nothing change__
Al_co_hol__ and pov_er_ty___Empty promises__broken Treaties__Hoka Hey!___Hoka Hey!
(BRIDGE)
All the Tribes__Come joining hands___Stand together on Indian land_
Life is Water and Water is Life____Walk the line ‘tween Earth and Sky__ Hoka Hey!
Honor your Mother__do Her no harm__Leave the damn oil in the ground__
Passive resistance__peaceful prayers___Move that pipeline on outta there__Hoka Hey !
Words and music J. Cedar Seeger 10/28/16