Four Horses: official music video

Описание: M.P. Charlie Angus was so "blown away" by the bestselling book, "Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginals Life", he was inspired to write a song. Here is the video for that song, "Four Horses."

"FOUR HORSES" by Charlie Angus

To Fort Qu'appelle came a Dapple Grey
​​​​As children coughed blood in the autumn rains
Broke the treaty when the buffalo failed
​​​And fenced the land for the CP Rail.

There's four horses at the Great Divide
Forget what they taught about the medicine line
Like a storm on a distant sky
Just Four horses at the Great Divide

I saw a black horse at Cut Knife Creek
But the great Poundmaker was a man of peace
He spared the soldiers true to his word
So they hung the braves at Fort Battleford

The Third Horse danced for the Great White Chief
hunger is lesson that is so easy to teach
kill a warrior you need a gun in hand
To break a people you need a bureaucrat man

There's four horses at the Great Divide
Forget what they taught you about the medicine line
Like a storm on a distant sky
Four horses at the Great Divide

A pale horse waits by the mission school
Progress they say can be so cruel
But the spirit lives on across the great north plains
And people are finding their voice again.


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