This is a lesser known John Denver song. Edward Sharpe does an amazing cover.
Wooden Indian
I was a red man, I was proud, I was strong.
You were the white man and you stole away my home.
Now I am a wooden Indian, painted dreams inside my head.
Times the way you bring me down make me wish that I was dead.
Na na na na na na, na na na na na. Na na na na na na, na na na na na.
I was a red man, in my passing made no sound.
You were the white man and you drove me in the ground.
Now I am a wooden Indian standing silent in the rain.
I swear by my grandfather’s father, we’re gonna rise again.
Na na na na na na, na na na na na. Na na na na na na, na na na na na.
I was a red man, I was proud, I was strong.
You were the white man and you stole away my home.
Now I am a wooden Indian standing silent in the rain.
I swear by my grandfather’s father, we’re gonna rise again.
© 2026 – SoulSequel
5 responses to “John Denver Wrote this?”
I almost posted Iron Maiden!
It is good to remember what our ancestors did for the sake of need and for the sake of greed. Because that genetic potential lives in us all.
And it is not good to forget what the natives did the people who were on the land before them for the sake of need and for the sake of greed.
Because if we do all we’re left with is lopsided one-way white guilt for simply being humans.
This is very vogue right now, and it’s important to understand why. Power groups and shame groups are a Marxist construct. The proletariat shamed the bourgeoisie for simply doing what they would have done had they been in their place. So they switched places; and the proletariat did far more shameful and horrendous things than the bourgeoisie had ever done.
Now flash this forward into every single neo-marxist exercise of victim groups and shame groups.
Now dig back into 20th century history and see how every single experiment without exception of this type, ended.
When a group spends so much time looking backwards; it seems to me that is extraordinarily difficult to move progressively forward.
Really nothing I can add that isn’t debatable,
@spitfire3dc
Genocidal acts tend to leave an impression on those that were acted upon.
I wasn’t expecting social commentary, however I welcome it. I think the song is super cool. And it’s interesting a white man wrote in the early 70s.