THE PRIESTS OF THE GOLDEN BULL (c) Buffy Sainte-Marie Who brought the bomb wrapped in business cards and stained with steak? Who hires a maid to wash his money? Who keeps politicians on the take? Who puts outspoken third-worlders in jail just to shut them down? Oh the lies vary from place to place but the truth is still the same, even in this town Their tongues are silver forks There’s a lack of wisdom, you can hear it on their breath Windego Third Worlders see it first: the dynamite, the dozers, the cancer and the acid rain The corporate caterpillars come into our backyards and turn the world to pocket change Reservations are the nuclear frontline; uranium poisoning kills We’re starving in a handful of gluttons We’re drowning in their gravy spills Money junkies all over the world trample us on their way to the bank They run in every race Windego It’s delicate confronting these priests of the golden bull They preach from the pulpit of the bottom line Their minds rustle with million dollar bills You say Silver burns a hole in your pocket and Gold burns a hole in your soul Well, Uranium burns a hole in forever It just gets out of control There was a crooked man who walked a crooked mile He raised a crooked sixpence to hide a crooked style He won a crooked race and smiled a crooked smile Windego Their tongues are silver forks There’s a lack of wisdom, you can hear it on their breath Windego. (Note: the Windego monster to Cree people is like the Vampire is in Europe; it’s a metaphor for mindless greed that cannibalizes indiscriminately for the satisfaction of only itself.)