Tonart: F# minor•
Verse 1
F#m
His father was a man
who could never understand
A
The shame on a red man's face
F#m
So they lived in the hills and they
never came down
C#sus4
But to trade in the white
Verse 2
F#m
It was early in the spring when
the snow had disappeared
A
They came down with a bag of skins
F#m
In the fall of the year of 1910
C#sus4
Daddy died by the rope
F#m
down in Cherokee Bend.
Bm
Daddy didn't like what the
Verse 3
Bm
white man said
C#
'Bout the dirty little kid at his side
Bm
Daddy didn't like what the
white man did
C#sus4
Nor the deal or the
F#m
There was blood on the floor of
the government store
A
When the men took his daddy away
F#m
But the boy stayed back till
he come to his end
C#sus4
And he run like the wind
C#
F#m
from Cherokee Bend.
Verse 4
F#m
Now the mother was alone and the
winter was at hand
A
And she prayed to her spirit kin
F#m
It was warm in the lodge
in the Kentucky hills
C#sus4
F#m
On the day when the boy came in
Verse 5
F#m
Then a blizzard came down and
it covered up the door
Verse 6
A
Till they thought that it
never would end
F#m
And he told her the tale
of the terrible affair
C#sus4
In the government store down
Bm
Daddy didn't like what the
Verse 7
Bm
white man said
C#
'Bout the dirty little kid at his side
Bm
Daddy didn't like what the
white man did
C#
Nor the deal or the way that he lied
F#m
For three long days
Verse 8
and three long nights
A
They wept and they mourned and then
F#m
She returned to her work
and her weavin'
C#sus4
And they tried to forget
F#m
about Cherokee Bend
Verse 9
F#m
Now the boy wasn't big but
he hunted what he could
A
And they lived for a time that way
F#m
But the food run low and the
meat went bad
C#
F#m
And she said to the boy one day
Verse 10
F#m
I'm leaving tonight and
I never will return
A
>From the land of my Spirit Kin
F#m
You must take what you need
and trade what you can
C#
For a Red Man's grave
F#m
down in Cherokee Bend
Bm
It wasn't very long till she
Verse 11
Bm
closed her eyes
C#
And he wrapped her in a robe
Bm
He found her a place on the side of the hill
C#
And he buried her in the snow
F#m
Early in the spring he was
Verse 12
F#m
seen in the town
A
With his load looking ragged and thin
F#m
Not a year had gone by till he
stood once again
C#
In the gov ernment store down
Verse 13
F#m
He was ten years tall and a Redskin too
A
So he hadn't much face to save
F#m
And the men sat around and they
laughed and they clowned
C#sus4
At the talk of a criminal's grave
Verse 14
man from the east didn't
smile when he said
A
You're the son of that Indian scum
F#m
If you value your hide
then you better abide
C#sus4
By the white man's rules
F#m
here in Cherokee Bend.
Bm
Daddy didn't like what the
Verse 15
Bm
white man said
C#
'Bout the dirty little kid at his side
Bm
Daddy didn't like what the
white man did
C#
Nor the deal or the way that he lied
F#m
And he spit on the floor of the
Verse 16
F#m
government store
A
And it served him to no good end
F#m
At the close of the day they
had taken him away
C#sus4
To the white man's school
F#m
down at Cherokee Bend
Verse 17
F#m
It's been 21 years since
the boy disappeared
A
Where he run to, nobody knows
F#m
But they say he fell in with
a man named Jim
C#
C#sus4
F#m
And he rides in the rodeo s
Verse 18
F#m
And they say he returns all
alone to a place
A
Hidden deep in the Kentucky glen
F#m
And it's pretty well known who
hauled up the stone
C#
To the grave on the hill above
Bm
Daddy didn't like what the
Verse 19
Bm
white man said
C#
'Bout the dirty little kid at his side
Bm
Daddy didn't like what the
white man did
C#
Nor the deal or the way that he lied
F#m
There was blood on the floor of the
Verse 20
F#m
government store
A
When the men took his daddy away
F#m
It was 1910 and they never
had a friend
C#sus4
C#
When he died by the rope
F#m
down at Cherokee Bend
It was 1910 and they never had a friend
C#
When he died by the rope
F#m
down at Cherokee Bend
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