"The Baren Tree" genre: Folk Rock
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	Tempo: moderate/Mood: upbeat
	MP3.com CD: BADLANDS - buy it! CD: BADLANDS Credits: music and lyrics by Randall Taylor
	Story Behind the Song 'The Baren Tree' epitamizes one man's move toward a continued journey and his perceptions along the way. Lawrence "Buddy" LaMonte (assassinated be an F.B.I. sniper's bullet), Anna Mae Pictou Aquash (used as a pawn and then discarded and delivered to Death's Lodge), both caught up in the struggle of ideals and concepts that few in this life-experience will ever actually know. "I still have hope. I still believe that deep down inside somewhere we are all human....but that along the way, somehow, we all just fell prey to ourselves." Lyrics "Don't bury me by the baren tree" I came out of the city with a bullet in my side I got shot at and wounded when the demon hitched a ride I came down from the mountain with a suitcase in my hand I've been bent back and branded like I was a homeless man Buddy got buried by the baren tree Anna Mae's buried by the baren tree They did alot of shooting down at Wounded Knee The bodies got buried by the baren tree I got caught when I was a baby making pretty women smile Like stealin' candy from an old man and kisses from a child Now the cock crows early; up before the break of dawn It's been three, long years now since a woman's been along It's been three, long years now since the girl's been gone Standin' in the middle of the desert staring at the baren tree And all these mountains surroundin' ....lookin' down at me All these mountains surroundin' ....they just starin' at me

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