《Cherokee Bend (Album Verision)》歌词

[00:00:08] His father was a man who could never understand

[00:00:11] The shame on a red man's face

[00:00:14] So they lived in the hills and they never came down

[00:00:17] But to trade in the white man's place

[00:00:19] It was early in the spring when the snow had disappeared

[00:00:25] They came down with a bag of skins

[00:00:28] In the fall of the year of 1910

[00:00:32] Daddy died by the rope down in Cherokee Bend

[00:00:34] Daddy didn't like what the white man said

[00:00:37] Bout the dirty little kid at his side

[00:00:39] Daddy didn't like what the white man did

[00:00:43] Nor the deal or the way that he lied

[00:00:45] There was blood on the floor of the government store

[00:00:48] When the men took his daddy away

[00:00:50] But the boy stayed back till he come to his end

[00:01:06] And he run like the wind from Cherokee Bend

[00:01:08] Now the mother was alone and the winter was at hand

[00:01:12] And she prayed to her spirit kin

[00:01:13] It was warm in the lodge in the Kentucky hills

[00:01:17] On the day when the boy came in

[00:01:19] Then a blizzard came down and it covered up the door

[00:01:22] Till they thought that it never would end

[00:01:25] And he told her the tale of the terrible affair

[00:01:30] In the government store down in Cherokee Bend

[00:01:32] Daddy didn't like what the white man said

[00:01:35] Bout the dirty little kid at his side

[00:01:37] Daddy didn't like what the white man did

[00:01:40] Nor the deal or the way that he lied

[00:01:43] For three long days and three long nights

[00:01:46] They wept and they mourned and then

[00:01:48] She returned to her work and her weavin

[00:02:04] And they tried to forget about Cherokee Bend

[00:02:06] Now the boy wasn't big but he hunted what he could

[00:02:09] And they lived for a time that way

[00:02:12] But the food run low and the meat went bad

[00:02:15] And she said to the boy one day

[00:02:17] I'm leaving tonight and I never will return

[00:02:20] From the land of my Spirit Kin

[00:02:23] You must take what you need and trade what you can

[00:02:27] For a Red Man's grave down in Cherokee Bend

[00:02:30] It wasn't very long till she closed her eyes

[00:02:33] And he wrapped her in a robe

[00:02:35] He found her a place on the side of the hill

[00:02:38] And he buried her in the snow

[00:02:41] Early in the spring he was seen in the town

[00:02:44] With his load looking ragged and thin

[00:02:46] Not a year had gone by till he stood once again

[00:03:02] In the government store down in Cherokee Bend

[00:03:05] He was ten years tall and a Redskin too

[00:03:07] So he hadn't much face to save

[00:03:10] And the men sat around and they laughed and they clowned

[00:03:13] At the talk of a criminal's grave

[00:03:15] Then the man from the east didn't smile when he said

[00:03:18] You're the son of that Indian scum

[00:03:21] If you value your hide then you better abide

[00:03:25] By the white man's rules here in Cherokee Bend

[00:03:28] Daddy didn't like what the white man said

[00:03:31] Bout the dirty little kid at his side

[00:03:33] Daddy didn't like what the white man did

[00:03:36] Nor the deal or the way that he lied

[00:03:39] And he spit on the floor of the government store

[00:03:41] And it served him to no good end

[00:03:44] At the close of the day they had taken him away

[00:03:59] To the white man's school down at Cherokee Bend

[00:04:02] It's been 21 years since the boy disappeared

[00:04:04] Where he run to nobody knows

[00:04:07] But they say he fell in with a man named Jim

[00:04:10] And he rides in the rodeos

[00:04:13] And they say he returns all alone to a place

[00:04:16] Hidden deep in the Kentucky glen

[00:04:18] And it's pretty well known who hauled up the stone

[00:04:23] To the grave on the hill above Cherokee Bend

[00:04:25] Daddy didn't like what the white man said

[00:04:28] Bout the dirty little kid at his side

[00:04:31] Daddy didn't like what the white man did

[00:04:34] Nor the deal or the way that he lied

[00:04:36] There was blood on the floor of the government store

[00:04:39] When the men took his daddy away

[00:04:42] It was 1910 and they never had a friend

[00:04:46] When he died by the rope down at Cherokee Bend

[00:04:49] It was 1910 and they never had a friend

[00:04:52] When he died by the rope down at Cherokee Bend