Emmylou Harris, The Milk Carton Kids - Apache Tears lyrics
Emmylou Harris [Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.] 🇺🇸
[Emmylou Harris, The Milk Carton Kids - Apache Tears lyrics]
Hoof prints and footprints
Deep ruts the wagons made
The victor and the loser came by here
No head stones, but these bones
Bring mascalero death moans
See the smooth black nuggets by
The thousands laying here
Petrified, but justified are
These apache tears
Dead grass, dry roots
Hunger crying in the night
Ghost of broken hearts and laws are here
And who saw the young squaw?
They're judged by their whiskey law
Tortured till she died of pain and fear
Where the soldiers lay her back
Are the black apache tears
The young men, the old men
The guilty and the innocent
Bled red blood and chilled alike with fears
The red men, the white men
No fight ever took this land
So don't raise the dust when you pass here
They're sleeping and in my keeping
Are these apache tears
Deep ruts the wagons made
The victor and the loser came by here
No head stones, but these bones
Bring mascalero death moans
See the smooth black nuggets by
The thousands laying here
Petrified, but justified are
These apache tears
Dead grass, dry roots
Hunger crying in the night
Ghost of broken hearts and laws are here
And who saw the young squaw?
They're judged by their whiskey law
Tortured till she died of pain and fear
Where the soldiers lay her back
Are the black apache tears
The young men, the old men
The guilty and the innocent
Bled red blood and chilled alike with fears
The red men, the white men
No fight ever took this land
So don't raise the dust when you pass here
They're sleeping and in my keeping
Are these apache tears