*These are the People of the Longhouse
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These are the People that you tried to break
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These are the People of the Pines
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Who Follow the Code of Handsome Lake
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He drank your poison, swallowed your fire
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And lay with fever four long years
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He received a vision so inspired
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Three messengers with painted faces appeared
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On the Allegheny river at a place called Burnt House
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The code was shared for the very first time
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By a Seneca chief, they call Handsome Lake
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With a Wounded Heart and a sober mind
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*Repeat
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**We are the People of the Longhouse
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We are the People that you couldn't break
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We are the People of the Sacred Pipe
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Who Follow The Code of Handsome Lake
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When the Dark Moon had come to live in your soul
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Get in touch with your creator, you are not alone
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These are the words
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That he had spoken two hundred years ago
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And today they still ring true
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Like they're carved in stone
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When Native life was hurled into the pit
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By way of the Canon, Rum, and Greed
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Oh a great fire was burned, to let the smoke rise
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And show the Six Nations the code was still alive
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Way Down Deep in the Bush
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We Oh hi ne oh he oh we oh we we
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(section repeats 4 times)
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* Repeat
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**Repeat
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The Code of Handsome Lake
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| The Band |
