Native Son - Rusco Family Music

I've seen many moons through these wrinkled eyes The years have made me old But they've made me wise Now the white man lives where our rivers run For now better days have passed We walk the streets of broken glass Our people vanished as snow before the summer sun Like dogs we were driven from this place Such injustice, time will not erase All these changes cannot be undone When you feel the anger inside of you Hold your head high - let your aim be true Though your heart beats like a drum My native son Once there was a time my little one Before the wagons - before the soldiers' guns When this land was ours as far as the eagle flies No white flag - no broken truce With few words one can speak the truth - I don't hear it Time won't heal it now With each new day that comes to pass Will the great spirit free us all at last? He said we were the chosen ones For all we had there's nothin' left We won? t forgive - we can't forget You know that your day will come My native son With each new day that comes to pass Will the great spirit free us all at last? What has happened can never be undone When i was young - not yet a man The sun rose and set upon our land We were the chosen ones My native son

Came through snow and driving rain I came free and I came chained I watched ships pull up on shore Worked and played, lived and died Valley's deep in mountain side Don't say you don't need me anymore 'Cause I ain't going nowhere 'Cause I'm right where I belong I don't have to love it And I don't have to leave it Ain't no stranger here, I am your native son Soldier, sailor, servant, slave All the blood and sweat I gave I sang songs of home I left behind My head's been beaten, my soul's been spent My taxes taken, my back's been bent And no one ever paid me any mind And I ain't going nowhere 'Cause I'm right where I belong I don't have to love it And I don't have to leave it Ain't no stranger here, I am your native son Been written out of every book Jailed and slandered, robbed and took But I always found another way Earn in a factory, fought in the streets Hunt from the bridges and died to speak I brought you everything you have today And I ain't going nowhere 'Cause I'm right where I belong I don't have to love it And I don't have to leave it Ain't no stranger here, I am your native son Ain't no stranger here, I am your native son I'm your brother I've been beaten and mistreated I'm your daughter, I've been lied to, I've been cheated I'm the wife they call now when everything's in pieces The forgotten child that you thought you never needed I ain't going nowhere 'Cause I'm right where I belong I don't have to love it And I don't have to leave it Ain't no stranger here, I am your native son Ain't no stranger here, I am your native son