lirik lagu michael e. johnson - the ballad of english prairie
[verse 1]
on the wisconsin river, seventeen and sixty three
came a pair of english traders on a journey from the east
abraham lansing and his only given son
built a trading post on prairie soil, as many since have done
[verse 2]
the virginia war was over, and the trading routes restored
the lansings plied the prairie and collected their reward
til their own hired hands, took up their flintlock gun
they struck down the father and they struck down the son
[chorus]
and the river whispers, but she don’t speak a word
of the blood soaked sand, or the violence that occurred
they called it english prairie, where the golden grasses sway
in memory of the son and father who were shot down one gray april day
[verse 3]
roseboom came, to join his partner and friend
he learned of the betrayal, and the lansings’ bitter end
set crosses made of cottonwood as the tears stained his face
while the k!llers slipped southward, and were gone without a trace
[verse 4]
the sauk told their story, and the truth was passed along
in the rush of the current and the voyageurs’ song
on the banks of the wisconsin where the whitetail plays
the legacy of the lansings lives on in muscoda
[chorus]
and the river whispers, but she don’t speak a word
of the blood soaked sand, or the violence that occurred
they called it english prairie, where the golden grasses sway
in memory of the son and father who were shot down one gray april day
[verse 5]
now travelers drift past with no thought to the cost
of the lives that were taken, or the futures that were lost
and the wind in the meadow holds close to what it knows
of death and betrayal where the wild river flows
[outro]
yeah, the river keeps rollin’, and their story never dies
for it lives in the water, in the trees, and in the skies
they called it english prairie, where the golden grasses sway
in memory of the son and father who were shot down one gray april day
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