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Album: Miscellaneous (1968)
Artists: Johnny Cash

  1. "The Man Who Couldn't Cry"
  2. A Boy Named Sue
  3. A Boy Named Sue
  4. Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
  5. Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
  6. Ballad Of Ira Hayes
  7. Big River
  8. City Of New Orleans
  9. Daddy Sang Bass
  10. Don't Take Your Guns To Town
  11. Five Feet High and Rising
  12. Folsom Prison Blues
  13. Get Rhythm
  14. Ghost Riders in the Sky
  15. Give My Love to Rose
  16. Grey Victory *
  17. Guess Things Happen That Way
  18. Hey Porter
  19. Highwayman
  20. Hurt
  21. I Still Miss Someone
  22. I Walk the Line
  23. I've Been Everywhere
  24. Long Black Veil
  25. Man In Black
  26. Matthew Twenty-Four (Is Knocking at the Door)
  27. One Piece At a Time
  28. ONEY
  29. Pickin' Time
  30. Ragged Old Flag
  31. Ring Of Fire
  32. San Quentin
  33. Starkville City Jail
  34. Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
  35. The One on the Left is on the Right
  36. Wanted Man
  37. Wrinkled Crinkled Wadded Dollar Bill


Johnny Cash
Miscellaneous
Ballad Of Ira Hayes
CHORUS:
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war

Gather round me people there's a story I would tell
About a brave young Indian you should remember well
From the land of the Pima Indian
A proud and noble band
Who farmed the Phoenix valley in Arizona land

Down the ditches for a thousand years
The water grew Ira's peoples' crops
'Till the white man stole the water rights
And the sparklin' water stopped

Now Ira's folks were hungry
And their land grew crops of weeds
When war came, Ira volunteered
And forgot the white man's greed

CHORUS:
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war


There they battled up Iwo Jima's hill,
Two hundred and fifty men
But only twenty-seven lived to walk back down again

And when the fight was over
And when Old Glory raised
Among the men who held it high
Was the Indian, Ira Hayes

CHORUS:
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war

Ira returned a hero
Celebrated through the land
He was wined and speeched and honored; Everybody shook his hand

But he was just a Pima Indian
No water, no crops, no chance
At home nobody cared what Ira'd done
And when did the Indians dance

CHORUS:
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war

Then Ira started drinkin' hard;
Jail was often his home
They'd let him raise the flag and lower it
like you'd throw a dog a bone!

He died drunk one mornin'
Alone in the land he fought to save
Two inches of water in a lonely ditch
Was a grave for Ira Hayes

CHORUS:
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war

Yeah, call him drunken Ira Hayes
But his land is just as dry
And his ghost is lyin' thirsty
In the ditch where Ira died
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