Buffalo Jump - Dougie MacLean

I’m the child of the great Cree nation

See me I’m my father’s son

We live by the great bull

See me I’m the wild one

This morning we are ready

To show the buffalo our knives

And by the red of sunset

We’ll have relieved them of their lives

Buffalo jump, feel the thunder

Buffalo jump, across the plains

Buffalo jump, kill the hunger

Crashing over the cliffs of pain

The beast has well been gathered

We could have had a thousand more

We’ll run them to the edge

And they’ll tumble out through death’s dark door

And soon the blood will flow like water

Through these sun bleached ancient bones

It will revive this dusty land

On which our seeds of life are thrown

Buffalo jump, feel the thunder

Buffalo jump, across the plains

Buffalo jump, kill the hunger

Crashing over the cliffs of pain

See me I am the bravest

I’m the strongest of us all

I’ll stand beside the river’s edge

And watch the great black waterfall

I’m a child of the great Cree nation

See me I’m my father’s son

We live by the great bull

See me I’m the wild one

Buffalo jump, feel the thunder

Buffalo jump, across the plains

Buffalo jump, kill the hunger

Crashing over the cliffs of pain