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- Indian Reservation
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- Artists: Paul Revere and the Raiders (peak Billboard position # 1 in 1971)
- Words and Music by John D. Loudermilk
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- They took the whole Cherokee nation
- Put us on this reservation
- Took away our ways of life
- The tomahawk and the bow and knife
- Took away our native tongue
- And taught their English to our young
- And all the beads we made by hand
- Are nowadays made in Japan
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- Cherokee people, Cherokee tribe
- So proud to live, so proud to die
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- They took the whole Indian nation
- Locked us on this reservation
- Though I wear a shirt and tie
- IÆm still part redman deep inside
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- Cherokee people, Cherokee tribe
- So proud to live, so proud to die
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- But maybe someday when they learn
- Cherokee nation will return, will return, will return, will return, will return
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- Transcribed by Ronald E. Hontz
- ronhontz@worldnet.att.net
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