[Lyrics and Melodies by Mark Boals / Music by Tony MacAlpine]

[2002 Boalsongs BMI / Eyes on the Prize BMI]



From the deserts to the oceanside

From the mountains to the plains

From two thousand years of peaceful life

To only strife and pain



Came to move them from ancestral homes

Bringing howling winds of war

To see the endless sky and earth below

Nevermore



Death and destruction

Came rolling from all directions

Then came the deal makers

Selling their lies



A forgotten people

Forced to wander the earth



Never respected

Only (neglected)

Theirs is the ghost of America



Receiving no honor

Holding on to their pride



Only were cheated

Never defeated

Theirs is the ghost of America



Many generations had come and gone

But their land was never changed

Life in harmony with nature reigned

Until the white men came



Until they said this is our promised land

It's our eminent domain

Let's destroy all traces of the past

Let nothing remain



Death and destruction

Came rolling from all directions

Then came the deal makers

Selling their lies



A forgotten people

Forced to wander the earth



Never respected

Only rejected

Theirs is the ghost of America



Receiving no honor

Holding on to their pride



Only were cheated

Never defeated

Theirs is the ghost of America



Death and destruction

Came rolling from all directions

Then came the deal makers

Selling their lies



A forgotten people

Forced to wander the earth



Never respected

Only rejected

Theirs is the ghost of America



Receiving no honor

Holding on to their pride



Only were cheated

Never defeated

Theirs is the ghost of America