i12bent:

Ira Hayes, war hero, Indian rights activist and ordinary man immortalized in Joe Rosenthal’s Iwo Jima flag raising photo, and - post mortem - in Peter La Farge’s song “The Ballad of Ira Hayes” - died on this day in 1955 in the aftermath of a drunken bar room brawl…

Johnny Cash: The Ballad of Ira Hayes — from Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian, 1964

(audio via walnut-whales)

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   Call him drunken Ira Hayes He won’t answer anymore Not the whiskey drinkin’ Indian Nor the Marine that went to war

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    Ira Hayes, war hero, Indian rights activist and ordinary man immortalized in Joe Rosenthal’s Iwo Jima flag raising...

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    I was talking about Ira Hayes today

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