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Lost in the Fire

from Dancing Now by David Hakan

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lyrics

LOST IN THE FIRE
G D
Windigo Lake shone like a great northern jewel,
Em C
Indian homeland before the Whiteman's rule.
Peter Bear stood proud, his spear raised to strike.
He fished like his forefathers half thru the night, half thru the night.
Buck Mills had tracked him; his grudge was still clear.
Only the Chippewa had spear fishing rights here.
Officer Riley saw Buck's Winchester, too.
He drove in lights flashing, before tempers flew,
G D
before tempers flew.
Bury the spear. Empty the gun.
Can't you see the color of what you've begun?
Red for the anger, tight as a wire.
Em Cm - A - D -C - D
Can't you see that common sense is lost in the fire?
G D C
Lie la la lie la la lie lie.
Jenny Bear watched them build the barricade stronger.
The protestors from the town wouldn't tarry much longer.
(She was) too young to help her dad as the Chippewa
blocked the road to Wind Island with a sign that said "stop", a sign that said "stop".
The treaty that gave them the spear fishing rights
had reduced their homeland like a vice held tight.
Trapped and forgotten, pitied and mocked,
they held onto magic as they sang on the dock, sang on the dock.
refrain

Every pickup in Hayward was lined up on Main.
Little Sally Mills thought they'd surely gone insane.
"Save all the Walleye," they cried "Smash all their boats.
If money won't buy them then we'll let them smoke. We'll let them smoke."
"Depleting the lakes would keep the tourists away,"
Buck told his daughter, wiped a tear from her face.
She said that the red had returned to his eye.
She should be angry too, but still didn't know why, still didn't know why.
refrain
The police moved the barricade and the crowd edged up.
Sally waved to Jenny in the meeting house from her truck.
An arrow went flaming to that meeting house door.
Dry wood and paint cans fed the blaze with a roar, that blaze with a roar.
With Jenny trapped inside Peter grabbed up a boat.
Buck helped him ram thru and inside they broke.
All they found were the flames climbing up higher,
but besides on old bearskin all else was lost in the fire, lost in the fire.
refrain
Lost in the fire. Lost in the fire.
Then a bear floated past as the twilight paled.
Everyone stared as it shuddered and wailed.
Then that bearskin splashed ashore around a ten-year-old face.
Windigo Lake had kept little Jenny Bear safe, had kept her safe.
refrain
words and music by
David B. Hakan 11-26-91
© 2000 David B Hakan All Rights Reseved

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from Dancing Now, released January 1, 2000

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