SLOW BEAT –
Tunkasilayapi cemakiya ca
Iyasica ki wakosote nan makoce ko wakiye

Ite sabye wan awakukte epa yunkan
Wicawake. Awakuwe!

LAKOTA HOKSILA, kowakata yai ca
Ekta wicaceyahe!
Hena ecanunwe!

Ehantan ecamun kta ca
Tunkasilayapi oyak’wasi k’un.
Toke oyakesni yelaka, he!

MODERATE DANCE BEAT –
Paha nanjiyo! Paha nanjiyo! (REPEATED)
Nake nunia he nunwe! Silela he nunke!

Iyasica wan tawicu wasas’kic’iye k’un
Owahasun kecaye!

Mila hanska iyasica hinhpayae! Nanku Lakota
Wan Sunka kuwa hinhpaye!

Iyasica wan taku maya helka, nakeyehca
Wiyutata nanyajinye.

Pehin hanska k’un toki yunka tainsni ca
Ceya oyakilepi k’un leci yunke!

Wankal kinyan wan he wokab yewayw! Kul
iyayw! Kul iyaye!

Ina hinanpayo! Ina hinpanayo! Wicapaha ca
Awakuwe. Wanji luha ktelo! Wanyankiyeyo

Iyasica wan owe wacinyanka he! Wahtesni
t’a toki leke eyas niciciyat’ka.

Grandfather asked this of me,
So I decreased the Germans (bad mouths)
And even took his land away!

I said I would bring a black painted face home.
I told the truth. I am bringing him home!

LAKOTA BOY, you went overseas so many
are crying there now!
You have done those things!

I was going to do this anyway,
so I told Grandfather to announce this.
It seems, however, that he did not announce
it… hey!

Aim (your weapon)! (REPEATED)
You live only for a short while!
You lay there humiliated!

A German dresses his wife in elegance;
I bury him in ragged clothes!

A long knife German has fallen. Also, a
Lakota Dog (Soldier) has fallen down.

German! You must consider me a relative,
You are finally waving at me!

Where Long Hair lays is not shown, so
Crying you looked for him! He is laying here!

I knocked an airplane forward! It went down!

Mother come outside! Mother come outside!
I am coming home with a bonnet! You will
Have one! Come see it!

I have been watching your tracks, German!
Wherever you would have gone, somebody
Would have been there!