| BEFORE THE WHITE MAN CAME We danced upon the air like rain Dark was our skin of generations Ageless were our mighty songs We drummed a rhythm of nature And slept beneath the silver moon Magic was our eyes back then Once upon a time we were free Wooden ships carried their bodies The corpses of a thousand wars With angry tongues they did attack To lighten the hair of my people And mock their songs with weak voices Bewitched with their deep blue eyes We slept in peace believing we were unbound Too late did we see they danced upon our graves BEFORE THE WHITE MAN CAME Our power came from within Their strength came from greed They built houses on our liberty And blinded us with their treachery Through it all they hungered Only white men live such lives Our enemies we have become Eric James COPYRIGHT April 17, 2001 |
| BEFORE THE WHITE MAN CAME |