"Indian Sunset" (music by Elton John&lyrics by Bernie Taupin)Available on the album "Madman Across The Water"Performed at BBC StudiosYear: 1971Band: (This performance is Elton SOLO!, no band in this particular clip)Elton John - piano, vocalsDee Murray - background vocalsNigel Olsson - background vocals, percussionLyrics(definitely one of Bernie Taupin's BEST and most beautiful works, IMO)-As I awoke this evening with the smell of wood smoke clinging,Like a gentle cobweb hanging upon a painted tepee, Oh I went to see my chieftain with my warlance and my womanFor he told us that the yellow moon would very soon be leavingThis I can't believe I said, I can't believe our warlord's deadOh he would not leave the chosen ones to the buzzards and the soldiers gunsOh great father of the Iroquois ever since I was youngI've read the writing of the smoke and breast fed on the sound of drumsI've learned to hurl the tomahawk and ride a painted pony wildTo run the gantlet of the Sioux, to make a chieftain's daughter mineAnd now you ask that I should watchThe red man's race be slowly crushedWhat kind of words are these to hearFrom Yellow Dog whom white man fearsI take only what is mine Lord, my pony, my squaw, and my childI can't stay to see you die along with my tribe's prideI go to search for the yellow moon and the fathers of our sonsWhere the red sun sinks in the hills of gold and the healing waters runTrampling down the prairie rose leaving hoof tracks in the sandThose who wish to follow me I welcome with my handsI heard from passing renegades Geronimo was deadHe'd been laying down his weapons when they filled him full of leadNow there seems no reason why I should carry onIn this land that once was my land I can't find a homeIt's lonely and it's quiet and the horse soldiers are comingAnd I think it's time I strung my bow and ceased my senseless runningFor soon I'll find the yellow moon along with my loved onesWhere the buffalos graze in clover fields without the sound of gunsAnd the red sun sinks at last into the hills of goldAnd peace to this young warrior comes with a bullet hole
this is even better than the album version! I get goose pimples all over!!!
Azcoustic(July 8, 2009 at 9:36 pm)
lol!! thats because this is the song they sampled for ghetto gospel.
monkeysht3556(July 6, 2009 at 4:48 pm)
this song goes perfect with ghetto gospel
gifted1973(July 4, 2009 at 12:35 am)
f**king brilliant!
MrsDelle(July 3, 2009 at 6:59 pm)
I've been wanting the same thing for years! How do we solve that...?
CamraLightsAction(July 3, 2009 at 3:56 am)
youtube really needs to make a 'repeat' button on here so we can jam to songs like this over and over.
Owleyes888(July 1, 2009 at 11:06 am)
TOP!
MrsDelle(June 26, 2009 at 5:46 pm)
One of the most beautiful performances in the history of music.
jonchapple(June 24, 2009 at 11:24 pm)
The poor bastards. It's all well and good America condemning the British Empire and continuing to denounce colonialism worldwide, but you've only got to look at the empire they've carved out which they call the United States to see that it's hypocrisy of the first order. The world's only remaining empire was built upon genocide.
csquaredremixz(June 21, 2009 at 5:53 am)
LMAO, well put ;)
HHvis(June 20, 2009 at 1:23 pm)
conversely , 2pac "GhettoGospel" contain elements from this song, produce by Eminem
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