[00:08.98]His father was a man who could never understand
[00:11.61]The shame on a red man's face
[00:14.42]So they lived in the hills and they never came down
[00:17.11]But to trade in the white man's place
[00:19.86]It was early in the spring when the snow had disappeared
[00:25.36]They came down with a bag of skins
[00:28.05]In the fall of the year of 1910
[00:31.32]
[00:32.38]Daddy died by the rope down in Cherokee Bend
[00:34.51]Daddy didn't like what the white man said
[00:37.63]Bout the dirty little kid at his side
[00:39.63]Daddy didn't like what the white man did
[00:43.01]Nor the deal or the way that he lied
[00:45.45]There was blood on the floor of the government store
[00:48.51]When the men took his daddy away
[00:50.95]But the boy stayed back till he come to his end
[00:54.89]
[01:06.51]And he run like the wind from Cherokee Bend
[01:08.89]Now the mother was alone and the winter was at hand
[01:12.01]And she prayed to her spirit kin
[01:13.57]It was warm in the lodge in the Kentucky hills
[01:17.45]On the day when the boy came in
[01:19.95]Then a blizzard came down and it covered up the door
[01:22.95]Till they thought that it never would end
[01:25.51]And he told her the tale of the terrible affair
[01:29.14]
[01:30.07]In the government store down in Cherokee Bend
[01:32.51]Daddy didn't like what the white man said
[01:35.32]Bout the dirty little kid at his side
[01:37.76]Daddy didn't like what the white man did
[01:40.57]Nor the deal or the way that he lied
[01:43.51]For three long days and three long nights
[01:46.20]They wept and they mourned and then
[01:48.66]She returned to her work and her weavin
[01:52.97]
[02:04.22]And they tried to forget about Cherokee Bend
[02:06.97]Now the boy wasn't big but he hunted what he could
[02:09.78]And they lived for a time that way
[02:12.53]But the food run low and the meat went bad
[02:15.41]And she said to the boy one day
[02:17.97]I'm leaving tonight and I never will return
[02:20.85]From the land of my Spirit Kin
[02:23.35]You must take what you need and trade what you can
[02:27.22]
[02:27.97]For a Red Man's grave down in Cherokee Bend
[02:30.53]It wasn't very long till she closed her eyes
[02:33.41]And he wrapped her in a robe
[02:35.60]He found her a place on the side of the hill
[02:38.78]And he buried her in the snow
[02:41.22]Early in the spring he was seen in the town
[02:44.22]With his load looking ragged and thin
[02:46.10]Not a year had gone by till he stood once again
[02:51.72]
[03:02.22]In the government store down in Cherokee Bend
[03:05.03]He was ten years tall and a Redskin too
[03:07.85]So he hadn't much face to save
[03:10.22]And the men sat around and they laughed and they clowned
[03:13.22]At the talk of a criminal's grave
[03:15.91]Then the man from the east didn't smile when he said
[03:18.78]You're the son of that Indian scum
[03:21.16]If you value your hide then you better abide
[03:24.85]
[03:25.66]By the white man's rules here in Cherokee Bend
[03:28.29]Daddy didn't like what the white man said
[03:31.10]Bout the dirty little kid at his side
[03:33.60]Daddy didn't like what the white man did
[03:36.47]Nor the deal or the way that he lied
[03:39.04]And he spit on the floor of the government store
[03:41.91]And it served him to no good end
[03:44.60]At the close of the day they had taken him away
[03:48.10]
[03:59.91]To the white man's school down at Cherokee Bend
[04:02.66]It's been 21 years since the boy disappeared
[04:04.55]Where he run to  nobody knows
[04:07.92]But they say he fell in with a man named Jim
[04:10.86]And he rides in the rodeos
[04:13.49]And they say he returns all alone to a place
[04:16.36]Hidden deep in the Kentucky glen
[04:18.92]And it's pretty well known who hauled up the stone
[04:21.98]
[04:23.55]To the grave on the hill above Cherokee Bend
[04:25.98]Daddy didn't like what the white man said
[04:28.80]Bout the dirty little kid at his side
[04:31.30]Daddy didn't like what the white man did
[04:34.17]Nor the deal or the way that he lied
[04:36.86]There was blood on the floor of the government store
[04:39.55]When the men took his daddy away
[04:42.30]It was 1910 and they never had a friend
[04:45.74]
[04:46.61]When he died by the rope down at Cherokee Bend
[04:49.11]It was 1910 and they never had a friend
[04:52.11]When he died by the rope down at Cherokee Bend