White man came across the sea
He brought us pain and misery
He killed our tribes, he killed our creed
He took our game for his own need
We fought him hard, we fought him well
Out on the plains we gave him hell
But many came, too much for Cree
Oh, will we ever be set free?
Riding through dust clouds and barren wastes
Galloping hard on the plains
Chasing the redskins back to their holes
Fighting them at their own game
Murder for freedom the stab in the back
Women and children are cowards, attack
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Soldier blue in the barren wastes
Hunting and killing's a game
Raping the women and wasting the men
The only good Indians are tame
Selling them whiskey and taking their gold
Enslaving the young and destroying the old
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Yeah
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
He brought us pain and misery
He killed our tribes, he killed our creed
He took our game for his own need
We fought him hard, we fought him well
Out on the plains we gave him hell
But many came, too much for Cree
Oh, will we ever be set free?
Riding through dust clouds and barren wastes
Galloping hard on the plains
Chasing the redskins back to their holes
Fighting them at their own game
Murder for freedom the stab in the back
Women and children are cowards, attack
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Soldier blue in the barren wastes
Hunting and killing's a game
Raping the women and wasting the men
The only good Indians are tame
Selling them whiskey and taking their gold
Enslaving the young and destroying the old
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Yeah
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Lyrics submitted by Novartza, edited by JackTStripper, RookieGTO, penisklaus, greanbanana
Run To The Hills Lyrics as written by Stephen Percy Harris
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Royalty Network, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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And it's true, many of them were savages, but was their culture. White men didn`t have to intervene with this.
Did they deserve smallpox? Alcoholism? The Trail Of Tears? Being killed in battle is one thing, disease-borne death-in-life is quite another. As is genocide.
Can we agree that the HUMAN race is a virus upon the planet Earth? “Good” and “bad” are relative terms.
So if I follow your reasoning, any mightier / more advanced civilisation has the right to annihilate another less developped one since "they have some bad guys". In that case, God (assuming he exists) should also erase humanity from planet earth...
Next, you forget that what white men did was to conquer territory and "push back" anybody already there. This is not very far from what the Germans did in Europe...
Here we are not talking about war between tribes but GENOCIDE. White men came with pistols and rifles where others only have stone and arrows....
YOU should read more about history of Europe.
In the rest of the song the lyrics says:
"Hunting and killing their game
Raping the women and wasting the men
The only good Indians are tame
Selling them whiskey and taking their gold
Enslaving the young and destroying the old"
To me it dosn't saoudn like Maiden are specially proud of what the invaders did :)