所属专辑:Cold On The Shoulder
歌手: Gordon Lightfoot
时长: 05:03
His father was a man who could never understand[00:00:08]
The shame on a red man's face[00:00:11]
So they lived in the hills and they never came down[00:00:14]
But to trade in the white man's place[00:00:17]
It was early in the spring when the snow had disappeared[00:00:19]
They came down with a bag of skins[00:00:25]
In the fall of the year of 1910[00:00:28]
Daddy died by the rope down in Cherokee Bend[00:00:32]
Daddy didn't like what the white man said[00:00:34]
Bout the dirty little kid at his side[00:00:37]
Daddy didn't like what the white man did[00:00:39]
Nor the deal or the way that he lied[00:00:43]
There was blood on the floor of the government store[00:00:45]
When the men took his daddy away[00:00:48]
But the boy stayed back till he come to his end[00:00:50]
And he run like the wind from Cherokee Bend[00:01:06]
Now the mother was alone and the winter was at hand[00:01:08]
And she prayed to her spirit kin[00:01:12]
It was warm in the lodge in the Kentucky hills[00:01:13]
On the day when the boy came in[00:01:17]
Then a blizzard came down and it covered up the door[00:01:19]
Till they thought that it never would end[00:01:22]
And he told her the tale of the terrible affair[00:01:25]
In the government store down in Cherokee Bend[00:01:30]
Daddy didn't like what the white man said[00:01:32]
Bout the dirty little kid at his side[00:01:35]
Daddy didn't like what the white man did[00:01:37]
Nor the deal or the way that he lied[00:01:40]
For three long days and three long nights[00:01:43]
They wept and they mourned and then[00:01:46]
She returned to her work and her weavin[00:01:48]
And they tried to forget about Cherokee Bend[00:02:04]
Now the boy wasn't big but he hunted what he could[00:02:06]
And they lived for a time that way[00:02:09]
But the food run low and the meat went bad[00:02:12]
And she said to the boy one day[00:02:15]
I'm leaving tonight and I never will return[00:02:17]
From the land of my Spirit Kin[00:02:20]
You must take what you need and trade what you can[00:02:23]
For a Red Man's grave down in Cherokee Bend[00:02:27]
It wasn't very long till she closed her eyes[00:02:30]
And he wrapped her in a robe[00:02:33]
He found her a place on the side of the hill[00:02:35]
And he buried her in the snow[00:02:38]
Early in the spring he was seen in the town[00:02:41]
With his load looking ragged and thin[00:02:44]
Not a year had gone by till he stood once again[00:02:46]
In the government store down in Cherokee Bend[00:03:02]
He was ten years tall and a Redskin too[00:03:05]
So he hadn't much face to save[00:03:07]
And the men sat around and they laughed and they clowned[00:03:10]
At the talk of a criminal's grave[00:03:13]
Then the man from the east didn't smile when he said[00:03:15]
You're the son of that Indian scum[00:03:18]
If you value your hide then you better abide[00:03:21]
By the white man's rules here in Cherokee Bend[00:03:25]
Daddy didn't like what the white man said[00:03:28]
Bout the dirty little kid at his side[00:03:31]
Daddy didn't like what the white man did[00:03:33]
Nor the deal or the way that he lied[00:03:36]
And he spit on the floor of the government store[00:03:39]
And it served him to no good end[00:03:41]
At the close of the day they had taken him away[00:03:44]
To the white man's school down at Cherokee Bend[00:03:59]
It's been 21 years since the boy disappeared[00:04:02]
Where he run to nobody knows[00:04:04]
But they say he fell in with a man named Jim[00:04:07]
And he rides in the rodeos[00:04:10]
And they say he returns all alone to a place[00:04:13]
Hidden deep in the Kentucky glen[00:04:16]
And it's pretty well known who hauled up the stone[00:04:18]
To the grave on the hill above Cherokee Bend[00:04:23]
Daddy didn't like what the white man said[00:04:25]
Bout the dirty little kid at his side[00:04:28]
Daddy didn't like what the white man did[00:04:31]
Nor the deal or the way that he lied[00:04:34]
There was blood on the floor of the government store[00:04:36]
When the men took his daddy away[00:04:39]
It was 1910 and they never had a friend[00:04:42]
When he died by the rope down at Cherokee Bend[00:04:46]
It was 1910 and they never had a friend[00:04:49]
When he died by the rope down at Cherokee Bend[00:04:52]