《Cherokee Bend(1988 Version)》歌词

歌曲： Cherokee Bend(1988 Version)

所属专辑：Gord’s Gold Volume II

歌手： Gordon Lightfoot

时长： 05:00

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Cherokee Bend - Gordon Lightfoot[00:00:00]

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[00:00:16]

But to trade in the white man's place[00:00:19]

It was early in the spring when the snow had disappeared[00:00:22]

They came down with a bag of skins[00:00:24]

In the fall of the year of 1910[00:00:27]

Daddy died by the rope down in Cherokee Bend[00:00:30]

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

Bout the dirty little kid at his side[00:00:36]

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

Nor the deal or the way that he lied[00:00:42]

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

When the men took his daddy away[00:00:47]

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

And he run like the wind from Cherokee Bend[00:00:53]

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

And she prayed to her spirit kin[00:01:11]

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

On the day when the boy came in[00:01:16]

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

Till they thought that it never would end[00:01:21]

And he told her the tale of the terrible affair[00:01:24]

In the government store down in Cherokee Bend[00:01:27]

Daddy didn't like what the white man said[00:01:31]

Bout the dirty little kid at his side[00:01:34]

Daddy didn't like what the white man did[00:01:36]

Nor the deal or the way that he lied[00:01:39]

For three long days and three long nights[00:01:42]

They wept and they mourned and then[00:01:45]

She returned to her work and her weavin[00:01:47]

And they tried to forget about Cherokee Bend[00:01:50]

Now the boy wasn't big but he hunted what he could[00:02:05]

And they lived for a time that way[00:02:08]

But the food run low and the meat went bad[00:02:10]

And she said to the boy one day[00:02:13]

I'm leaving tonight and I never will return[00:02:16]

From the land of my Spirit Kin[00:02:18]

You must take what you need and trade what you can[00:02:21]

For a Red Man's grave down in Cherokee Bend[00:02:24]

It wasn't very long till she closed her eyes[00:02:28]

And he wrapped her in a robe[00:02:31]

He found her a place on the side of the hill[00:02:33]

And he buried her in the snow[00:02:36]

Early in the spring he was seen in the town[00:02:39]

With his load looking ragged and thin[00:02:41]

Not a year had gone by till he stood once again[00:02:44]

In the government store down in Cherokee Bend[00:02:47]

He was ten years tall and a Redskin too[00:03:02]

So he hadn't much face to save[00:03:04]

And the men sat around and they laughed and they clowned[00:03:07]

At the talk of a criminal's grave[00:03:10]

Then the man from the east didn't smile when he said[00:03:13]

You're the son of that Indian scum[00:03:15]

If you value your hide then you better abide[00:03:18]

By the white man's rules here in Cherokee Bend[00:03:21]

Daddy didn't like what the white man said[00:03:25]

Bout the dirty little kid at his side[00:03:28]

Daddy didn't like what the white man did[00:03:31]

Nor the deal or the way that he lied[00:03:33]

And he spit on the floor of the government store[00:03:36]

And it served him to no good end[00:03:38]

At the close of the day they had taken him away[00:03:41]

To the white man's school down at Cherokee Bend[00:03:44]

It's been 21 years since the boy disappeared[00:03:59]

Where he run to nobody knows[00:04:01]

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

And he rides in the rodeos[00:04:07]

And they say he returns all alone to a place[00:04:10]

Hidden deep in the Kentucky glen[00:04:12]

And it's pretty well known who hauled up the stone[00:04:15]

To the grave on the hill above Cherokee Bend[00:04:18]

Daddy didn't like what the white man said[00:04:22]

Bout the dirty little kid at his side[00:04:24]

Daddy didn't like what the white man did[00:04:28]

Nor the deal or the way that he lied[00:04:30]

There was blood on the floor of the government store[00:04:33]

When the men took his daddy away[00:04:35]

It was 1910 and they never had a friend[00:04:38]

When he died by the rope down at Cherokee Bend[00:04:41]

It was 1910 and they never had a friend[00:04:45]

When he died by the rope down at Cherokee Bend[00:04:48]