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Cherokee Bend easy guitar chords by 
Gordon Lightfoot
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Verse 1
Em
His father was a man
who could never understand
G
The shame on a red man's face
Em
So they lived in the hills and they
never came down
Bsus4
But to trade in the white
Em
man's place
Verse 2
Em
It was early in the spring when
the snow had disappeared
G
They came down with a bag of skins
Em
In the fall of the year of 1910
Bsus4
Daddy died by the rope
Em
down in Cherokee Bend.
Am
Daddy didn't like what the
Verse 3
Am
white man said
B
'Bout the dirty little kid at his side
Am
Daddy didn't like what the
white man did
Bsus4
Nor the deal or the
B
way that he lied
Em
There was blood on the floor of
the government store
G
When the men took his daddy away
Em
But the boy stayed back till
he come to his end
Bsus4
And he run like the wind
B
Em
from Cherokee Bend.
Verse 4
Em
Now the mother was alone and the
winter was at hand
G
And she prayed to her spirit kin
Em
It was warm in the lodge
in the Kentucky hills
Bsus4
Em
On the day when the boy came in
Verse 5
Em
Then a blizzard came down and
it covered up the door
Verse 6
G
Till they thought that it
never would end
Em
And he told her the tale
of the terrible affair
Bsus4
In the government store down
Em
in Cherokee Bend
Am
Daddy didn't like what the
Verse 7
Am
white man said
B
'Bout the dirty little kid at his side
Am
Daddy didn't like what the
white man did
B
Nor the deal or the way that he lied
Em
For three long days
Verse 8
and three long nights
G
They wept and they mourned and then
Em
She returned to her work
and her weavin'
Bsus4
And they tried to forget
Em
about Cherokee Bend
Verse 9
Em
Now the boy wasn't big but
he hunted what he could
G
And they lived for a time that way
Em
But the food run low and the
meat went bad
B
Em
And she said to the boy one day
Verse 10
Em
I'm leaving tonight and
I never will return
G
>From the land of my Spirit Kin
Em
You must take what you need
and trade what you can
B
For a Red Man's grave
Em
down in Cherokee Bend
Am
It wasn't very long till she
Verse 11
Am
closed her eyes
B
And he wrapped her in a robe
Am
He found her a place on the side of the hill
B
And he buried her in the snow
Em
Early in the spring he was
Verse 12
Em
seen in the town
G
With his load looking ragged and thin
Em
Not a year had gone by till he
stood once again
B
In the government store down
Em
in Cherokee Bend
Verse 13
Em
He was ten years tall and a Redskin too
G
So he hadn't much face to save
Em
And the men sat around and they
laughed and they clowned
Bsus4
At the talk of a criminal's grave
Em
Then the
Verse 14
man from the east didn't
smile when he said
G
You're the son of that Indian scum
Em
If you value your hide
then you better abide
Bsus4
By the white man's rules
Em
here in Cherokee Bend.
Am
Daddy didn't like what the
Verse 15
Am
white man said
B
'Bout the dirty little kid at his side
Am
Daddy didn't like what the
white man did
B
Nor the deal or the way that he lied
Em
And he spit on the floor of the
Verse 16
Em
government store
G
And it served him to no good end
Em
At the close of the day they
had taken him away
Bsus4
To the white man's school
Em
down at Cherokee Bend
Verse 17
Em
It's been 21 years since
the boy disappeared
G
Where he run to, nobody knows
Em
But they say he fell in with
a man named Jim
B
Bsus4
Em
And he rides in the rodeo s
Verse 18
Em
And they say he returns all
alone to a place
G
Hidden deep in the Kentucky glen
Em
And it's pretty well known who
hauled up the stone
B
To the grave on the hill above
Em
Cherokee Bend
Am
Daddy didn't like what the
Verse 19
Am
white man said
B
'Bout the dirty little kid at his side
Am
Daddy didn't like what the
white man did
B
Nor the deal or the way that he lied
Em
There was blood on the floor of the
Verse 20
Em
government store
G
When the men took his daddy away
Em
It was 1910 and they never
had a friend
Bsus4
B
When he died by the rope
Em
down at Cherokee Bend
It was 1910 and they never had a friend
B
When he died by the rope
Em
down at Cherokee Bend
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