Trail Of Tears Lyrics - John Denver

This song was first released on the Dreamland Express album. It is the only album it has been released on. 

No more beautiful moons may we spend on our land 

In the north, the scarlet council talks of war 

And the long knives have massacred the tribe and burned corn 

We're not welcome in our homeland anymore 

No more songs of the hunters on the baffalo plain 

No more smoke from sacred fires touch these hills 

And the numbers of the people grow fewer every mile 

And our children will not leave the Great Spirit's ways 

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There will be a trail of tears 

There will be a trail of pain 

And Jackson will have the Mississippi and the twenty dollar bill 

But for us the trail is all that will remain 

On the streets of rapid City 

On the road to Wounded Knee 

There is whiskey for forgetting everything 

But the old ones say there may be time learning from each other 

The way that it had once been meant to be 

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There is still a trail of tears 

There is still a trail of pain 

And Jackson has got the Mississippi and the twenty dollar bill 

But for us the trail of tears remains 

And Jackson has got the Mississippi and the twenty dollar bill 

But how long will the trail of tears remain 

Words and Music by Randy Handley