The Great Chief Drives On

Staring at an old photograph
on the wall inside the Mustang Bar
of Geronimo and a medicine man
he was riding in a car
he was riding in a car

I’m the son of a Mescalaro Apache
I once walked horses at Ruidoso Downs
they built the race track and now a brand new supermarket
by our old hunting grounds
by our old hunting grounds

Chorus

Where is the medicine my father made
Where has the Great Spirit gone
Through the mud and the melting snow I walk down Highway 70
and the Great Chief Drives On the Great Chief Drives on

My brother he sets chokers on a logging crew
his brother works in a mill at the end of town
they seem to think the only way to save the tribe
is to tear the forest down
tear the forest down

But the legacy of the crown axe and the kettle
and the paper saying what this land is worth
don’t mean to make a junkyard
of the river and the sky
with what we scratch from the earth
what we scratch from the earth

Chorus

There’s a crescent moon and a car fire on the highway
black smoke billowing in the darkness
white flames hissing in the wind
we did not inherit this land from our fathers
we borrow it from our children
we borrow it from our children

Staring at an old photograph
on the wall inside the Mustang Bar
of Geronimo and a medicine man
he was riding in a car
he was riding in a car

© 1992 Liberty Beach Music
From the 1992 album, “The Sweetheart’s Collection”

http://www.DavidHarris.com libertybeach1@mail.com All songs written by David Harris. Copyright 2006 Liberty Beach Music, BMI. Used by permission.

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