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NOTHING HAS CHANGED

from THE TIME HAS COME by Billy O'Dwyer Bob

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NOTHING HAS CHANGED
©Billy O'Dwyer Bob 2000

I saw you lying there, dead in the snow
In a picture that was taken so many years ago
And it hung on the wall like some big old head
A trophy to the men who shot you all dead.

In the picture before, men were drinking a toast.
They were probably boasting over who shot the most
As they held up their chins and they stuck out their chests
As they posed for their photographs in their Sunday best.

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Now all of you heroes are now dead and gone
You're only remembered in stories and songs
Yesterday's people on yesterday's plains
Everything's different now, but nothing has changed.

You were doing the ghost dance, that's how it read
You were calling the spirits of your warrior dead
In the shirts that you got from your medicine man
Were said to stop bullets, but only God can.

I was led to believe that when I was young
That the good guy was the cowboy with the big shiny gun
And if you had red skin, well you had to die
It was only a game, but we never knew why.

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Well they sold their movies, and we bought their lies
But our heroes were the ones that we grew to despise
When the great white father had blood on his hands
And he broke all his treaties, and took all your lands.

Then they buried you all in a mighty big hole
Without any respect for you, body or soul
When their great carbine guns rained down misery
And you died in the snow that day at Wounded Knee.

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from THE TIME HAS COME, released September 25, 2010

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Billy O'Dwyer Bob South Tipperary, Ireland

'Billy O'Dwyer is from the Emerald Isle and possesses a pronounced Irish brogue that is wholly absorbing. He has written all the material and proves to be a good storyteller...' -Country Music People
'The voice is mellow, the arrangements, beautifully simple and the lyrics are excellent. Billy is another one of those treasures of the music scene...a talent to watch out for.' -Irish Music Magazine ... more

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