It’s My Way is first album by folk singer Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte-Marie, OC is a Canadian Cree singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues of Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Her singing and writing repertoire includes...

. It is most famous for two widely-covered folk standards, "Universal Soldier" and "Cod'ine", as well as "Now That the Buffalo's Gone", a lament about the continued confiscation of Indian lands, as evidenced by the building of the Kinzua Dam

Kinzua Dam

The Kinzua Dam, in the Allegheny National Forest in Warren County, Pennsylvania, is one of the largest dams in the United States east of the Mississippi River....

 in about 1964. The cover features a mouthbow, which was to be a trademark of her sound on her first three albums.

Track listing

Side 1

1. "Now That the Buffalo's Gone"
2. "The Old Man's Lament"
3. "Ananias"
4. "Mayoo Sto Hoon"
5. "Cod'ine"
6. "Cripple Creek
   Cripple Creek (folk song)
   Cripple Creek is an Old Time Appalachian folk song for the fiddle, though it is often played on the banjo as well.. No one knows when it was composed, but there are theories about just where Cripple Creek is. Some say it is Cripple Creek, Virginia, while others say it is based on Cripple Creek,...
   
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7. "The Universal Soldier
   Universal Soldier (song)
   "Universal Soldier" is a song written and recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. The song was originally released on Sainte-Marie's debut album It's My Way! in 1964. "Universal Soldier" was not a popular hit at the time of its release, but it did garner attention within the...
   
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Side 2

1. "Babe in Arms"
2. "He Lived Alone in Town"
3. "You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond"
4. "The Incest Song"
5. "Eyes of Amber"
6. "It's My Way"

Personnel

• Buffy Sainte-Marie - vocals, guitar, arrangements
• Patrick Sky
  Patrick Sky
  Patrick Sky is a musician, singer and songwriter of Irish and Native American ancestry...
  
   - guitar on "He Lived Alone in Town"
• Art Davis
  Art Davis
  Art Davis was a double-bassist, known for his work with various seminal jazz musicians including Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Max Roach.-Biography:...
  
  - bass on "Now That the Buffalo's Gone"