Artist & Tune
About the Song
For the lies that were spoken
For the blood we have spilled
For the treaties that we broken
For the leaders you have stilled
G C / - G / - C / D G
Custer died for your sin
Custer died for your sin
Now a new day must begin
Custer died for your sin
F C / G D / F D / C G
For the tribes you terminated
For the myth you keep alive
For the land you confiscated
For our freedom you deprive
For the truth that you pollute
For the life that you have cost
For the good you prostitute
And for all that we have lost
words & music by Floyd Westerman. (c) author. All rights reserved.
The song references the 1969 nonfiction book of the same title by Vina Deloria Jr. Custer Died for Your Sins was significant in its presentation of Native Americans as a people who were able to retain their tribal society and morality, while existing in the modern world.