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Sacrifice -Robbie Robertson |
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You know we have a million stories to tell |
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I'm just one of a million or more stories that could be told |
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Sacrifice your freedom |
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Sacrifice your prayer |
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Take away your language |
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Cut off all your hair |
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Sacrifice the loved ones |
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Who always stood by me |
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Stranded in the wasteland |
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Set my spirit free |
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My name is Leonard Peltier |
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I am a Lakota and Anishnabe |
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And I am living in the United States penitentiary |
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Which is the swiftest growing |
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Indian reservations in the country |
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I have been in prison since 1976 |
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For an incident that took place on the Oglala-Lakota Nation |
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There was a shoot-out between members of the American Indian Movement |
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And The FBI and the local Sheriffs State Troopers |
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Two agents were killed and one Indian was murdered |
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Three of us were charged with the deaths of the FBI agents |
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My co-defendants were found not-guilty by reasons of self-defense |
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My case was separated and I was found guilty before a jury of non-Indian people |
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The prosecutor stated that they did not know who killed their agents |
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Nor did he know what participation Leonard Peltier may have played in it |
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But someone has to pay for the crime |
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There's a lot of nights that I lay in my cell |
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And I can't understand why this hell this hell and this terror |
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That I have been going through for twenty-one years hasn't ended |
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Sacrifice your freedom |
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Sacrifice your prayer |
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Take away your language |
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Cut off all your hair |
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Sacrifice the loved ones |
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Who always stood by me |
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Stranded in the wasteland |
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Set my spirit free |
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But yet I know in my heart that someone has to pay sacrifice |
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To make things better for our people |
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The sacrifice I have made when I really sit down to think about it |
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Is nothing compared to what our people a couple hundred years ago |
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Or fifty years ago or twenty-five years ago have made |
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Some gave their lives |
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Some had to stand there and watch their children die in their arms |
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So the sacrifice I have made is nothing compared to those |
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I've gone too far now to start backing down |
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I don't give up |
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Not 'til my people are free will I give up |
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And if I have to sacrifice some more |
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Then I sacrifice some more |
