False Friends of a Boy Named Souix

While going to see a man about a horse                                                                        Oh Susanna's don't tread on me but of course                                                                 Little snake by any other name would be just as bitter                                                  piss and vinegar with forked tongue now who is the spitter                                             Fighting without fighting within you named me Sioux                                                        like mustangs running freely they were brought too                                                        The deer the buffalo ran free they will again                                                              some allies some enemy but true is we are all kin                                                         The hearth of the matter to divide the seven stones                                                   conquering a fire of a people while scattering their bones
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