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V1 (Sitting Bull):

To the Black Hills whites have come

For gold they’ll see us over-run,

The Army’s been sent to hem us in…

But in my dreams I have seen we’ll win.

V2 (Lt. Col George Armstrong Custer):

The Seventh must ride to meet the Sioux

The Lakota and Cheyenne.

We have orders: they won’t escape

A pincer move will seal their fate.

V3 (Major Marcus Reno):

We crossed the river, and then attacked

Expecting few, instead we met a trap.

V4 (Captain Frederick Benteen):

To Reno’s aid we came upon the bluffs

As we dug in, Hell came down on us.

V5 (Narrator):

Custer, to the North, rides unknowing

The village (two thousand strong) awaits,

The boys have warned them, the warriors swarm

He leads the Seventh on to their fate…

V5 (Captain Myles Keogh):

Hold fast, men – here comes the attack.

Just like before, we’ll send them running back.

V6 (Crazy Horse):

Braves, vengeance is at hand!

Break their lines, slay them where they stand.

V7 (Lt. Col George Armstrong Custer):

Keogh’s dead, his men now fall like wheat

To me now, men – we must retreat!

V8 (Crazy Horse):

The ‘buffalo’ run, it’s time for counting coup

Their dead are many, our losses few.

V9 (Narrator):

A shot to the heart, and Custer now falls

Suicide or torture the remainder must now choose…

From Last Stand Hill run the final twenty-eight

Caught in a gully – there is no escape…