1890 Lyrics - When The Devil Goes Blind - Charlie Parr

I was in a burial party, way back to Wounded Knee, 

Rock hammers and ice picks, to chip the dead ones free 

After the massacre, the blizzard, they've been frozen to the ground 

Mother, children and warriors we found them all around. 

They were frozen in their agony or shock and terror has they fled 

The army's giant Howitzers they sang their song of death 

We found chief Big Foot, his scarf around his face 

The ice was frozen blood, from neck down to his waist 

Their bloody footprints in the snow that the ghost danced for the dead 

and I hoped that it was true, what all the legend said. 

They're will be a new spring coming and our families will come home 

Game will fill the prairie, crops will always grow. 

We wrapped the bodies in red blankets, placed them on our sled 

And left there stacked up rifles and everything that they had 

Crazy Horse was buried here, someone said as we were due to start 

Just as hard, I told him, it's only just as hard.