Banner Year - Five Iron Frenzy

A banner year 1864

Don’t want the red man anymore

Can’t have them taking up good land

Give them a token flag

Trade pipes and shake some hands

Tell them the white stripes stand for peace

Say if they raise red white and blue

Blue coats will never shoot at you

But stripes will loose their sheen

Black Kettle was their chief

He only wanted peace

Under the flag, a massacre at Sand Creek

Wave your flag.

Salivate

Stirring feelings of pride and hate

A peace of cloth can’t hold your faith

No flag flies, no banner waves

See the empty pole above his empty grave

No one knows where he lies

And no one knows why he had to die

A banner year 1868

A bitter end a twist of fate

Maps won’t hold this melanoma

Blurry part of Oklahoma

Where Custer shot and killed Black Kettle

Wave your flag.

Salivate

Stirring feelings of pride and hate

A peace of cloth can’t hold your faith

No flag flies, no banner waves

See the empty pole above his empty grave

No one knows where he lies

And no one knows why he had to die

A promise is a promise

A judge of character

His banner over me is love

No flag flies, no banner waves

See the empty pole above his empty grave

No one knows where he lies

And no one knows why he had to die

No flag flies, no banner waves

See the empty pole above his empty grave

No one knows where he lies

And no one knows why he had to die