Carlisle Indian

     He ran so fast no one ever saw him again
    They taught him to speak
    You are the greatest athlete in the world, 

            proclaimed the king
    Thanks, king, said he
    But Jim Thorpe don’t play here no more
    He couldn’t hit the breaking pitch, and
    He piled his Pierce Arrow into the ditch,
    Out where the Wal-mart used to be,
    And Jim Thorpe don’t play here no more
    No, and Jim Thorpe don’t drink here no more
    Someone said they saw him standing 

            in front of the cigar store
    But Jim Thorpe don’t play here no more
    No, and Jim Thorpe don’t drink here no more
    Jim Thorpe don’t drink here no more
    


Hey, Jim, where did all the Indians go?
Maybe to the Carlisle Indian School, I guess, I don’t know

Hey, Jim, where did all the buffalo go?    
Maybe to the Carlisle Indian School, I guess, I don’t know

Was that Jim Thorpe I saw out in front of the cigar store? 

No, no, Jim Thorpe don’t play here no more 

Jim Thorpe don’t drink here no more 

Well, we need a starter, tonight’s a big game 

And Chief Bender is in the Hall of Fame 

But Jim Thorpe don’t play here no more 

Jim Thorpe don’t drink here no more  

No more, no more, no more . . . 

How can you read the defense 

When there is no defense 

The rattling of the bones 

The rattling of the bones
 

They say the Indians will soon be gone 

That the red man is vanishing from this land 

The old ones say only the sky lives forever 

And I say the stars will always remember the way I ran
 

Look, a deer don’t say 

Today I’m going to run pretty 

It just runs 

And a horse doesn’t say 

Watch me run pretty 

It just runs 

And the wolf don’t say 

Today I’m going to hunt pretty 

It just hunts 

And the moon don’t say 

Tonight watch me shine so pretty 

It just shines
 

Kill the Indian, save the man . . . 

Kill the Indian, save the man  {chant throughout}