Cherokee Bend – Gordon Lightfoot
Nghệ sĩ: Gordon Lightfoot
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Gordon Lightfoot - Cherokee Bend
CAPO: 4th Fret
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His father was a man who could never understand
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The shame on a red man's face
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So they lived in the hills and they never came down
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But to trade in the white man's place
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It was early in the spring when the snow had disappeared
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They came down with a bag of skins
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In the fall of the year of 1910
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Daddy died by the rope down in Cherokee Bend
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Daddy didn't like what the white man said
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'Bout the dirty little kid at his side
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Daddy didn't like what the white man did
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Nor the deal or the way that he lied
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There was blood on the floor of the government store
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When the men took his daddy away
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But the boy stayed back till he come to his end
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And he run like the wind from Cherokee Bend
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Now the mother was alone and the winter was at hand
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And she prayed to her spirit kin
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It was warm in the lodge in the Kentucky hills
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On the day when the boy came in
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Then a blizzard came down and it covered up the door
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Till they thought that it never would end
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And he told her the tale of the terrible affair
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In the government store down in Cherokee Bend
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Daddy didn't like what the white man said
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'Bout the dirty little kid at his side
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Daddy didn't like what the white man did
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Nor the deal or the way that he lied
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For three long days and three long nights
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They wept and they mourned and then
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She returned to her work and her weaving
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And they tried to forget about Cherokee Bend
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Now the boy wasn't big, but he hunted what he could
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And they lived for a time that way
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But the food run low and the meat went bad
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And she said to the boy one day
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"I'm leaving tonight and I never will return
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From the land of my Spirit Kin
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You must take what you need and trade what you can
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For a Red Man's grave down in Cherokee Bend"
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It wasn't very long till she closed her eyes
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And he wrapped her in a robe
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He found her a place on the side of the hill
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And he buried her in the snow
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Early in the spring he was seen in the town
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With his load, looking ragged and thin
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Not a year had gone by when he stood once again
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In the government store down in Cherokee Bend
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He was ten years tall and a Redskin too
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So he hadn't much face to save
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And the men sat around and they laughed and they clowned
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At the talk of a criminal's grave
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Then the man from the east didn't smile when he said
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"You're the son of that Indian scum
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If you value your hide then you better abide
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By the white man's rules, here in Cherokee Bend"
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Daddy didn't like what the white man said
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'Bout the dirty little kid at his side
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Daddy didn't like what the white man did
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Nor the deal or the way that he lied
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Then he spit on the floor of the government store
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And it served him to no good end
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At the close of the day they had taken him away
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To the white man's school down in Cherokee Bend
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It's been 21 years since the boy disappeared
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Where he run to, nobody knows
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But they say he fell in with a man named Jim
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And he rides in the rodeos
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They say he returned all alone to a place
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Hidden deep in the Kentucky glen
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And it's pretty well known who hauled up the stone
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To the grave on the hill above Cherokee Bend
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Daddy didn't like what the white man said
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'Bout the dirty little kid at his side
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Daddy didn't like what the white man did
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Nor the deal or the way that he lied
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There was blood on the floor of the government store
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When the men took his daddy away
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It was 1910 and they never had a friend
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When he died by the rope down at Cherokee Bend
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It was 1910 and they never had a friend
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When he died by the rope down at Cherokee Bend