Buffy Sainte Marie - "The Priests of the Golden Bull" video free download


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Uploaded: 2008/10/05

Who brought the bomb wrapped up in business cards

And stained with steak?

Who hires a maid to wash his money?

Who keeps politicians on the take?

Who puts outspoken third-worlders in jail

Just to shut them down?

Oh the lies vary from place to place but the truth is still the same,

Even in this town

Money junkies all over the world

Trample us on their way to the bank

They run in every race

Windego

Third-worlders see it first:

The dynamite, the dozers, the cancer and the acid rain

The corporate caterpillars come into our backyards

And turn the world to pocket change

Reservations are the nuclear frontline;

Uranium poisoning kills

We're starving in a handful of gluttons

We're drowning in their gravy spills

Their tongues are silver forks

There's a lack of wisdom,

You can hear it on their breath

Windego

It's delicate confronting these priests of the golden bull

They preach from the pulpit of the bottom line

Their minds rustle with million dollar bills

You say Silver burns a hole in your pocket

And Gold burns a hole in your soul

Well, uranium burns a hole in forever

It just gets out of control

There was a crooked man who walked a crooked mile

He raised a crooked sixpence to hide a crooked style

He won a crooked vote and smiled a crooked smile

Windego

Their tongues are silver forks

There's a lack of wisdom,

You can hear it on their breath

Windego

Comments

9 years ago

Diane Steele

Happy Birthday, much respect!!

9 years ago

guyglowmore1

so true. so cutting. touches my deepest soul. trembling

9 years ago

Andrew Zeegers

I am one with this spirit and this song...

9 years ago

Randy Roley

This is such a deep song. I love it.

9 years ago

wenzel martin

I'm reading "Dispelling Wetiko Breaking the Curse of Evil" by Paul Levy 

10 years ago

Protest Songs

Wonderful how Buffy Sainte-Marie translates Wendigo from a legend about cannibalism into a legend about capitalism. Very true and important to give this destructive force a name.

11 years ago

Bracknell Ridges

Who brought the bomb wrapped up in business cards?

11 years ago

soundgrounds

There is a fantastic and important book by Paul Levy on the Windego problem enveloping our world. He uses the word Wetiko which is a variant of Windego. I urge you all to check it out!!! > awakeninthedream. com/wetiko/

12 years ago

joey hensa

A truly great album from 1992!

12 years ago

Andrew Zeegers

Awesome, Wind Ego's, build houses on sand, may their ego's be blown away by the wind...and their houses washed by the sea... such a great song...

12 years ago

David Paterson

What a load of twaddle... 'Windego' is what it says on the tin....Wind...de.... go

12 years ago

David Paterson

What a load of twaddle... 'Windego' is what is says on the tin....Wind...de.... go

13 years ago

123Goldielocks

... Uranium burns in a hole for ever, it just gets out of control. Fukushima shows us once again how right Buffy is

13 years ago

Liberty Treebud

Windego - is a mythical creature appearing in the mythology of the Algonquian people. It is a malevolent cannibalistic spirit into which humans could transform, or which could possess humans. Windego were embodiments of gluttony, greed, and excess; never satisfied after killing and consuming one person, they were constantly searching for new victims. In some traditions, humans who became overpowered by greed could turn into Windego. "sounds like the gangster government and accomplices."

13 years ago

coolhandjackman

The Truth.

13 years ago

guyglowmore1

been listening to this song since first released. it got to me deeply. still makes me weak, makes me cry. this is one of the most powerful poems ever written and it's fitting that buffy would be the one. she deserves a grammy for this one and it's typical that anything of this importance never reaches a large audience because the beasts of the golden bull keep it supressed as usual...

13 years ago

kevin reilly

Very Apt for the World at Present

13 years ago

petclark1

I remember being blown away by her lyrics 19 or 20 years ago when I first heard this song. Sadly, of course, her take on things is even more true today. Where is there real hope? I'm glad I didn't bring children into this world.

13 years ago

Aunt Lonny

Angel of Song, Lady I love you!

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