Buffie Sainte-Marie et le Dernier Bison

NOW THAT THE BUFFALO'S GONE
Buffie Sainte-Marie

Voici dans la même lignée que le « Dernier des Mohicans » ou « la dernière baleine », « la fin de bisons » déplorée par la chanteuse canadienne Buffie Sainte Marie.

Les indiens d’Amérique pensaient, à juste titre, que la disparition des bisons sonneraient leur glas aussi. Mais à bien y réfléchir, c’est le glas de l’humanité qu’il sonne !

Cette chanson est tirée de son premier album intitulé « I’m gonna be a country girl again ». Après les études, elle retourne dans ses terres natales, ou du moins le si peu qui reste à son peuple après de belles promesses et des trahisons… des envahisseurs anglais.

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"Can you remember the times
That you have held your head high
and told all your friends of your Indian claim
Proud good lady and proud good man
Some great great grandfather from Indian blood came
and you feel in your heart for these ones

Oh it's written in books and in song
that we've been mistreated and wronged
Well over and over I hear those same words
from you good lady and you good man
Well listen to me if you care where we stand
and you feel you're a part of these ones

When a war between nations is lost
the loser we know pays the cost
but even when Germany fell to your hands
consider dear lady, consider dear man
you left them their pride and you left them their land
and what have you done to these ones

Has a change come about my dear man
or are you still taking our lands
A treaty forever your senators sign
They do dear lady, they do dear man
and the treaties are broken again and again
and what will you do for these ones

Oh it's all in the past you can say
but it's still going on here today
The governments now want the Navaho land
that of the Inuit and the Cheyenne
It's here and it's now you can help us dear man
Now that the buffalo's gone."