Rose before the Sun Left our home in Walla Walla Where the memory of our fathers will remain And over the Mountain trail, to the banks of the clear water On the Camas Prairie we were forced to stay To say the man can own the land defies the laws of nature And those were things we didn't understand And all the broken promises of peace just turned to anger We played right into their hands As the sun shines down And dries this blood soaked ground My heart is sick and sad And this ragtag band Will be long gone by tomorrow Far away where the sun now stands Hiding in the shadows of the blood moon in the Big Sky Moving at a pace we couldn't hold The miles and the mountains took its toll upon the weary As we traveled through the cold One last bloody battle forty miles from the border After we made our final stand They promised to return us to our home, if we'd surrender And we played right into their hands As the sun shines down And dries the blood soaked ground My heart is sick and sad And this ragtag band Will fight no more forever Far away where the sun now stands