Elton John - Indian Sunset - Live Radio Broadcast / Including Spoken Intro / Remastered 2016

This is the number which Bennie and I just written Fresh of the parses, folks Ah, we read it when we went back after our last visit And Bennie had been to an Indian reservation And ah, he'd written a song about the Indians And we just started this, it's not been recorded Or anything, ah, it's just about to be bought, ah But ah, never mind, there's a method in our madness I tell you It's a cool Indian sunset and it's very long So if you like to go to the toilet now You can quite, you are quite welcome It's my notice here As I awoke this evening With the smell of woodsmoke clinging Like a gentle cobweb hanging Upon a painted tepee Oh, I went to see my chieftain With my warlance and my woman For he told us that the yellow moon Would very soon be leaving Oh, this I can't believe I said I won't believe our warlord's dead Oh, he would not leave the chosen ones To the buzzards and the soldiers' guns Oh, great father of the Iroquois Ever since I was young I've read the writing of the smoke And breastfed on the sound of drums I've learned to hurl the tomahawk And ride a painted pony wild To run the gauntlet of the Sioux To make a chieftain's daughter mine And now you ask that I should watch The red man's race be slowly crushed? What kind of words are these to hear From Yellow Dog, whom white man fears? I take only what is mine, Lord My pony, my squaw, and my child Oh, I can't stay to see you die Along with my tribe's pride I go to search for the yellow moon And the fathers of our sons Where the red sun sinks in the hills of gold And the healing waters run Trampling down the prairie rose Leaving hoof tracks in the sand Those who wish to follow me I welcome with my hands I heard from passing renegades Geronimo was dead He'd been laying down his weapons When they filled him full of lead