CHEROKEE NATIONS TRILOGY: Cherokee Bend/Illuminati Song/Cherokee Nation Will Return

Cherokee Bend, ©1975 by Gordon Lightfoot His father was a man who could never understand The shame on a red man’s face So they lived in the hills and they never came down But to trade in the white man’s place Early in the spring when the snow had disappeared They came down with a bag of skins In the fall of the year of 1910 Daddy died by the rope down in Cherokee Bend. Daddy didn’t like what the white man said ’Bout the dirty little kid at his side Daddy didn’t like what the white man did Nor the deal