Buffy Sainte-Marie - "No No Keshagesh"

Buffy Sainte-Marie's "No No Keshagesh" Lyrics:

I never saw so many business suits.
Never knew a dollar sign that looked so cute.
Never knew a junkie with a money Jones:
He's singing, "Who's selling Park Place. Who's buying Boardwalk"?
These old men they make their dirty deals.
Go in the back room and see what they can steal.
Talk about your beautiful and spacious skies.
It's about uranium; it's about the water rights.
Put Mother Nature on a luncheon plate.
They cut her up and call it real estate.
Want all the resources and all of the land.
They make a war over it: Blow things up for it.
The reservation now is poverty row.
There's something cooking and the lights are low.
Somebody's trying to save our mother earth.
I'm gonna help them to save it,
To sing it and bring it

Singing: No no Keshagesh:
You can't do that no more, (no more, no more no more)
No, no, no, no Keshagesh
You can't do that no more, (no more, no more no more)
No, no, no, no Keshagesh
You can't do that no more, (no more, no more no more)
No, no, no, no Keshagesh
You can't do that no more, (no more, no more no more)

Ole Columbus he was looking good,
When he got lost in our neighborhood.
Garden of Eden right before his eyes.
Now it's all spy ware: now it's all income tax.
Ole' brother Midas looking hungry today.
What he can't buy he'll get some other way.
Send in the troopers if the natives resist.
Old, old story boys, that's how you do it boys.
Look at these people; ah they're on a roll.
Gonna have it all, gonna have complete control.
Want all the resources and all of the land.
They'll break the law for it: Blow things up for it.
When all our champions are off in the war,
Their final rip off here and is always on.
Mr. greed I think your time has come.
We're gonna sing it and pray it and live it then say it.

Singing: No no Keshagesh:
You can't do that no more, (no more, no more no more)
No, no, no, no Keshagesh
You can't do that no more, (no more, no more no more)
No, no, no, no Keshagesh
You can't do that no more, (no more, no more no more)
No, no, no, no Keshagesh
You can't do that no more, (no more, no more no more)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Buffy
• Sainte
• Marie
• Running
• For
• The
• Drum
• No
• keshagesh
• Native
• American
• Candian
• Music
• Aborigonal
• song
• singing
• drums

[praireguy23]

just FYI for any one who wants to know i looked it up and keshagesh is cree for "greddy guts" lol makes alot sense!

[NativeAmerican4Life]

Awesome! Thanks for that :)

[r51collins]

Can't stop playing it

[DonnaMayB]

Really says what it's all about

[Matrika52]

Speak it Sister!

j/L "Granny" Matrika/Rolling Buffalo Woman

[windstorm1000]

They're still doing it! Stealin native land---polluting, etc. And Americans are choosing not to see this second land grab!

[DonInAlabama]

@praireguy23 What is a 'greddy"?

[123Goldielocks]

I bust my repeat button.

[videomanic1]

OMG...this is "drum and bass" as it was originally played...mmmm....

[2boddah]

love love this song

[choppedandchanneled]

If I hadn't heard her on WNCW 88.7 ,google it, I would have never known about this great music. This public radio station plays it regularly. I love it!

[Shaneation]

She had a dog she named Keshagesh as well, he used to eat his diner and everyone else's as well.