From the Indian Reservation to the governmental school
Well, they're going to educate me
To the white man's golden rule
And I, I'm learning quickly
For I've learned to be ashamed
And I come when they call Billy
And I come when they call Billy
And I come when they call Billy
Though I've got an Indian name
But there are drums beyond the mountain
Indian drums that you can't hear
There are drums beyond the mountain
And they're getting me
And they're getting mad in here
Well, when, when they think they've changed me
Cut my hair to meet their needs
Will they think me white or Indian
Quarter blood
Or just half-breed
Say, let me tell you
Mr. Teacher
Who is going
To make me right
In six hundred years of fighting
Not one Indian
Has turned
To white
And there are drums
Beyond the mountain
Indian drums
That you can't hear
There are drums
Beyond the mountain
And they're getting
Mad in here
Well, you thought
That I knew nothing
When you brought me
Here to school
Just another
Empty Indian
Just America's
First fool
And I'm not
But I
I can tell you stories
That are burnt
And dark and old
And in the spell
Of their talent
Walks the thunder
Proud and bold
And I can tell you








The story's just as clear

Oh, I've felt
Like some jitterbush
You got a finalimiento


Even the press
Has entered the
Bandwagon
But the way








I'm here


They're getting
Has brought me
Outside
here
near why there's lone pine and sequoia handsome lake and sitting bull
there goes mangus
colorado with his sleeves so red and full
here comes crazy horse the legend and those who bit off custer's soul
they are dead
but yet they're living
with the great
geronimo and there are drums beyond the mountain indian drums that you can't hear
there are drums
beyond the mountain and they're getting mighty near
you can teach me this land's history but we taught it to you first we broke your hearts
we bent your journeys
broken treaties left us cursed even now you have to cheat us even though you think us tame
in our losing
we found proudness in your winning
you found
shape
and there are drums
beyond the mountain
indian drums
you cannot hear
there are drums
And there are drums beyond the mountain
And they're gettin' mighty near
Once again
And there are drums beyond the mountain
Indian drums that you can't hear
There are drums beyond the mountain
And they're gettin' mighty near