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From the Indian reservation to the governmental school
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Well they're goin' to educate me to the white men's Golden Rule
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And I am learning very quickly for I've learned to be ashamed
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And I come when they call "Billy" though I've got an Indian name
[Chorus]
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And there are Drums beyond the Mountain There are Drums that you
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cannnot hear
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There are Drums beyond the Mountain and they're getting mighty
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near
[Verse 2]
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And when they thought that they had changed me cut my hair to
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meet their needs
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Will they think I'm white or Indian quarter Blood or just half breed
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Let me tell you Mr teacher when you say you'll make me right
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In five hundred years of fighting not one Indian turned white
[Chorus]
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And there are Drums beyond the Mountain There are Drums that you
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cannnot hear
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There are Drums beyond the Mountain and they're getting mighty
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near
[Verse 3]
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Well you thought that I knew nothing when you brought me here to
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your school
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Just another empty Indian just America's first fool
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But now I can tell you stories that are burnt and dried and old
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But in the shadow of their telling walks the Thunder proud and bold
[Chorus]
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And there are Drums beyond the Mountain There are Drums that you
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cannnot hear
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There are Drums beyond the Mountain and they're getting mighty
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near
[Verse 4]
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Long Pine and Sequoia Handsome Lake and Sitting Bull
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There's Magnus Colorado with his sleeves so red and full
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Crazy Horse the legend those who bit off custer's Soul
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They are dead yet they are living with the great Geronimo
[Chorus]
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And there are Drums beyond the Mountain There are Drums that you
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cannnot hear
G# D# A#7
There are Drums beyond the Mountain and they're getting mighty
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near
[Verse 5]
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Well you may teach me this land's hist'ry but we taught it to you first
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We broke your Hearts and bent your journeys broken treaties left us
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cursed
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Even now you have to cheat us even though you think us tame
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In our losing we found proudness in your winning you found shame
[Chorus]
D# G#
And there are Drums beyond the Mountain There are Drums that you
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cannnot hear
G# D# A#7
There are Drums beyond the Mountain and they're getting mighty
D#
near
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