Medicine Man (Live at Focus Hope)

(This is dedicated to the Gates Foundation) Oh the medicine man he was blue as sky And he drew my blood as the planes went by And he sang his song to the big white light About the Mississippi River and the lead on a tin can Oh the medicine man he was a natural fighter He fought that Indian land for the last of the natural water So all the nice white people could have a backyard party In the Arizona sunshine watching the planes go by Oh the medicine man he had a friend in finance Who had a grocery chain and the keys to the prisons And he asked that doctor Can I call you Sam? And he bought him a beer and they watched it all burn Every time a tower falls and nothing takes its place But TV cameras and proxy wars and a brand new paper face Take your medication darling don't you fade away Just watch the planes go by they will bring you gold someday Oh the medicine man he turned green as the Jordan When he saw that face in the deep dark night Of the living people he'd sent to labor So he gave them numbers in the morning paper Oh the medicine man he is blue as sky And he's drawing my blood as the planes go by And he's singing his song to the big white light About the Mississippi River and the lead on a tin can