Cherokee Bend-Gordon Lightfoot

[ti:Cherokee Bend - Gordon Lightfoot] [ar:Gordon Lightfoot] [al:Gord's Gold Volume II] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Cherokee Bend (1988 Version) - Gordon Lightfoot [00:11.45]His father was a man who could never understand [00:14.18]The shame on a red man's face [00:16.55]So they lived in the hills and they never came down [00:19.47]But to trade in the white man's place [00:21.67] [00:22.33]It was early in the spring when the snow had disappeared [00:24.94]They came down with a bag of skins [00:27.13] [00:27.64]In the fall of the year of 1910 [00:30.24]Daddy died by the rope down in Cherokee Bend [00:33.49] [00:34.59]Daddy didn't like what the white man said [00:36.88]Bout the dirty little kid at his side [00:38.85] [00:39.76]Daddy didn't like what the white man did [00:42.31]Nor the deal or the way that he lied [00:44.58] [00:45.16]There was blood on the floor of the government store [00:47.93]When the men took his daddy away [00:50.52]But the boy stayed back till he come to his end [00:53.50]And he run like the wind from Cherokee Bend [00:56.70] [01:08.25]Now the mother was alone and the winter was at hand [01:11.06]And she prayed to her spirit kin [01:12.90] [01:13.64]It was warm in the lodge in the Kentucky hills [01:16.51]On the day when the boy came in [01:18.55] [01:19.25]Then a blizzard came down and it covered up the door [01:21.78]Till they thought that it never would end [01:24.31]And he told her the tale of the terrible affair [01:27.34]In the government store down in Cherokee Bend [01:30.35] [01:31.47]Daddy didn't like what the white man said [01:34.10]Bout the dirty little kid at his side [01:36.12] [01:36.83]Daddy didn't like what the white man did [01:39.28]Nor the deal or the way that he lied [01:41.64] [01:42.42]For three long days and three long nights [01:45.01]They wept and they mourned and then [01:47.54]She returned to her work and her weavin [01:50.36]And they tried to forget about Cherokee Bend [01:53.69] [02:05.20]Now the boy wasn't big but he hunted what he could [02:08.08]And they lived for a time that way [02:10.68]But the food run low and the meat went bad [02:13.43]And she said to the boy one day [02:15.53] [02:16.07]I'm leaving tonight and I never will return [02:18.88]From the land of my Spirit Kin [02:21.36]You must take what you need and trade what you can [02:24.35]For a Red Man's grave down in Cherokee Bend [02:27.73] [02:28.60]It wasn't very long till she closed her eyes [02:31.20]And he wrapped her in a robe [02:33.32] [02:33.92]He found her a place on the side of the hill [02:36.46]And he buried her in the snow [02:38.51] [02:39.71]Early in the spring he was seen in the town [02:41.82]With his load looking ragged and thin [02:44.56]Not a year had gone by till he stood once again [02:47.48]In the government store down in Cherokee Bend [02:50.69] [03:02.24]He was ten years tall and a Redskin too [03:04.82]So he hadn't much face to save [03:07.53]And the men sat around and they laughed and they clowned [03:10.55]At the talk of a criminal's grave [03:13.11]Then the man from the east didn't smile when he said [03:15.99]You're the son of that Indian scum [03:18.27]If you value your hide then you better abide [03:21.31]By the white man's rules here in Cherokee Bend [03:24.40] [03:25.57]Daddy didn't like what the white man said [03:28.11]Bout the dirty little kid at his side [03:29.93] [03:31.03]Daddy didn't like what the white man did [03:33.54]Nor the deal or the way that he lied [03:35.52] [03:36.21]And he spit on the floor of the government store [03:38.79]And it served him to no good end [03:41.52]At the close of the day they had taken him away [03:44.42]To the white man's school down at Cherokee Bend [03:47.72] [03:59.31]It's been 21 years since the boy disappeared [04:01.95]Where he run to nobody knows [04:04.74]But they say he fell in with a man named Jim [04:07.41]And he rides in the rodeos [04:09.68] [04:10.32]And they say he returns all alone to a place [04:12.80]Hidden deep in the Kentucky glen [04:15.44]And it's pretty well known who hauled up the stone [04:18.34]To the grave on the hill above Cherokee Bend [04:21.71] [04:22.59]Daddy didn't like what the white man said [04:24.90]Bout the dirty little kid at his side [04:26.87] [04:28.03]Daddy didn't like what the white man did [04:30.35]Nor the deal or the way that he lied [04:32.56] [04:33.24]There was blood on the floor of the government store [04:35.98]When the men took his daddy away [04:38.57]It was 1910 and they never had a friend [04:41.25]When he died by the rope down at Cherokee Bend [04:45.08] [04:45.64]It was 1910 and they never had a friend [04:48.01]When he died by the rope down at Cherokee Bend