too many wrongs to make right
The land could not be shared
between the red men and the white
So Cornstalk called a council
and by the wampum keepers fire
The war belt and the tomahawk
Shawnee, Wyandotte, Miami,
Ottowatamie, Ottawan, Winnebago
In the valleys and the plains
where men were living free
Governor Harrison called a meeting
with Tecumseh at Vincennes
Tensions were rising, the year was 1810
With 80 warriors by his side,
He said, our land cannot be sold,
Shawnee, Wyandotte, Miami, Kickapoo
Ottawa, Miatawa, Winnebago
In the valleys and the plains
where men were living free
Tecumseh and a war party,
traveled through the south
the truth rang from his mouth
We are one, the great spirit
Don't let the white man take it,
Shawnee, Wyandotte, Miami, Kickapoo
Ottawa to me, Ottawa to Winnebago
In the valleys and the plains
where men were living free
But Harrison was not honest,
they burned Prophetstown to dust
No one knew the dream had perished
and would not be realized
Shawnee, Wyandotte, Miami,
Ottawatomie, Ottawa, Winnebago
In the valleys and the plains
where men were living free
and joined the British cause
The time had come to fight,
or the Northwest would be lost
With pledges of a country
to forever call their own
The warriors were gathered,
In the valleys and the plains
where men were living free
From Detroit to Frenchtown,
Until one day the British
Shawnee, Wyandotte, Miami,
Ottawa, and Bagel Town, Delaware,
Choctaw, even Greek and Cherokee,
In the valleys and the plains
where men were living free,
It was the Battle of the Thames,
Did his bodyguards bear him
to his fi nal resting place
Or was his body desecrated
to vanish without a trace?
Shawnee, Wyndham, Miami, Kickapoo
In the valleys and the plains
where men were living free
