Cherokee Bend chords by
Gordon Lightfoot
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Key: F# minor•
Verse 1
F#m
F#m
2

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His father was a man
who could never understand
A
A

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The shame on a red man's face
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So they lived in the hills and they
never came down
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4

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But to trade in the white
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man's place
Verse 2
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It was early in the spring when
the snow had disappeared
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They came down with a bag of skins
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In the fall of the year of 1910
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Daddy died by the rope
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down in Cherokee Bend.
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Daddy didn't like what the
Verse 3
Bm
Bm
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white man said
C#
C#
4

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'Bout the dirty little kid at his side
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Daddy didn't like what the
white man did
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4

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

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Hidden deep in the Kentucky glen
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And it's pretty well known who
hauled up the stone
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To the grave on the hill above
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Cherokee Bend
Bm
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Daddy didn't like what the
Verse 19
Bm
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white man said
C#
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'Bout the dirty little kid at his side
Bm
Bm
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Daddy didn't like what the
white man did
C#
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Nor the deal or the way that he lied
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There was blood on the floor of the
Verse 20
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F#m
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government store
A
A

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When the men took his daddy away
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2

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It was 1910 and they never
had a friend
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C#
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When he died by the rope
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down at Cherokee Bend
It was 1910 and they never had a friend
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When he died by the rope
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down at Cherokee Bend

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