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Idle No More
Lyrics: Idle No More
On the Ottawa River – the Sun it abates – Christmas is passing and everyone waits: Will nations meet face to face?
The island is quiet – guests they are few – Parliament’s buildings are just within view – the whole world is waiting for you
Prayers for the land – prayers from the cold – fighting back hunger in body and soul I will idle no more!
We killed them with hunger in history past – hunted their buffalo down to the last
took away children and beat them with love – we taught them to worship our god up above and his son who was king – without rights to his land oh…
On the Ottawa River – the Sun it abates – Christmas is passing and everyone waits: Will nations meet face to face?
She will not cower – nor will she cry – land for her Nation is reason to die.
I will stand against genocide!
So beat the drums loud and beat the drums fast – march for the treaties and call up the dance, Sing your lament, sing it long make it last – sing for the Chief in her hard cold fast, ’cause of self-righteous men with their laws and demands oh…
on the Ottawa River – the Sun it abates – Christmas is passing and everyone waits: Will nations meet face to face?
Prayers for the children – prayers from the cold – fighting back hunger in body and soul. I will idle no more!
Death can be sudden or death can be slow – with beads of coercion or blood in the snow with policy papers for death to a Nation in one final blow
We will idle no more… idle no more!
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