Robbie Robertson & The Red Road Ensemble - Ghost Dance/Mahk Jchi - LIVE on BBC

Sep 17, 2010
Robbie Robertson and the angelic voice of TRRE performs two songs -'Ghost Dance,' and 'Mahk Jchi' from his Music For The Native Americans album live on the BBC.

Robbie's channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5reZbdkRto

Rest in Peace, Robbie.
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"Ghost Dance"
(from "Music For The Native Americans" soundtrack)

Crow has brought the message
To the children of the sun
For the return of the buffalo
And for a better day to come

You can kill my body
You can damn my soul
For not believing in your god
And some world down below

You don't stand a chance against my prayers
You don't stand a chance against my love
They outlawed the Ghost Dance
They outlawed the Ghost Dance
But we shall live again, we shall live again

My sister above
She has red paint
She died at Wounded Knee
Like a later day saint

You got the big drum in the distance
The blackbird's in the sky
That's the sound that you hear
When the buffalo cry

You don't stand a chance against my prayers
You don't stand a chance against my love
They outlawed the Ghost Dance
They outlawed the Ghost Dance
But we shall live again, we shall live again
We shall live again

Crazy Horse was a mystic
He knew the secret of the trance
And Sitting Bull the great apostle
Of the Ghost Dance

Come on Comanche
Come on Blackfoot
Come on Shoshone
Come on Cheyenne

We shall live again
We shall live again

Come on Arapaho
Come on Cherokee
Come on Paiute
Come on Sioux

We shall live again

You used to do the Ghost Dance
You used to do the Ghost Dance
You don't sing them kinda songs no more

Mahk Jchi

Mahk jchi tahm buooi yahmpi gidi
Mahk jchi taum buooi kan spewa ebi
Mahmpi wah hoka yee monk
Tahond tani kiyee tiyee
Gee we-me eetiyee
Nanka yaht yamoonieah wajitse

English translation:

A hundred years have passed
Yet I hear the distant beat of my father's drums.
I hear his drums throughout the land.
His beat I feel within my heart.
The drum shall beat
so my heart shall beat.
And I shall live a hundred thousand years.