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Verse 1
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'Bout a brave young Indian lad,
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you should remember well,
From a tribe of Pima Indians,
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a proud and peaceful band
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Who farmed the Phoenix Valley
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Verse 2
Down their ditches for a thousand
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years the sparkling water rushed
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Till the white man stole the water rights
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and the running water hushed.
Ira's folks was hungry,
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their fields grew thick with weeds,
But when war came Ira volunteered
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and forgot the white man's greed.
Verse 3
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Call him drunken Ira Hayes,
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Not that whiskey drinking Indian or Marine
Verse 4
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Well, they battled up Iwo Jima Hill,
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two hundred and fifty men
But only twenty- seven lived
to walk back down again.
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And after the fight was over
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and Old Glory proudly raised,
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Among the men who held her high was an Indian,
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Ira Hayes.
Verse 5
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Call him drunken Ira Hayes,
he won't answer anymore,
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Not that whiskey drinking Indian
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or Marine who went to war.
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Verse 6
Well, Ira Hayes returned a hero,
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celebrated throughout the land,
He was wined and speeched and honored,
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everybody shook his hand.
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But he's just a Pima Indian, no food,
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And nobody cared what Ira did and
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when do the Indians dance.
Verse 7
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Well, Ira took to drinking hard,
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jail often was his home,
They used to let him raise the flag there and lower
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it just like you'd throw a dog a bone.
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And Ira died drunk early one morning all alone
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in the land he'd fought to save.
Two inches of water in a lonely ditch
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was the grave for Ira Hayes.
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Verse 8
Call him drunken Ira Hayes,
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Not that whiskey drinking Indian or
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Marine who went to war.
Verse 9
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Yeah,
call him drunken Ira Hayes,
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but his lan
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