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Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1836721,"song":"Cherokee Bend","artist":"Gordon Lightfoot","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1836721-cherokee-bend-chords-by-gordon-lightfoot/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1836721?type=chord","rating":4.71646,"votes":18,"content":"Gordon Lightfoot - Cherokee Bend\r\n\r\n\r\nCAPO: 4th Fret\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[INTRO:] [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\n\r\n[VERSE 1:]\r\n\r\nHis father was a man who could never understand\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe shame on a red man's face[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nSo they lived in the hills and they never came down[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nBut to trade in the white man's place[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[VERSE 2:]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nIt was early in the spring when the snow had disappeared[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThey came down with a bag of skins[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nIn the fall of the year of 1910[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A7[/ch]                                [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nDaddy died by the rope down in Cherokee Bend[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[CHORUS:]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nDaddy didn't like what the white man said[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]A7[/ch]\r\n'Bout the dirty little kid at his side[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nDaddy didn't like what the white man did[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nNor the deal or the way that he lied[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[VERSE 3:]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nThere was blood on the floor of the government store[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWhen the men took his daddy away[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nBut the boy stayed back till he come to his end[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A7[/ch]                              [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd he run like the wind from Cherokee Bend[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[VERSE 4:]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nNow the mother was alone and the winter was at hand[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd she prayed to her spirit kin[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nIt was warm in the lodge in the Kentucky hills[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A7[/ch] \r\nOn the day when the boy came in[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[VERSE 5:]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nThen a blizzard came down and it covered up the door[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]\r\nTill they thought that it never would end[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd he told her the tale of the terrible affair[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A7[/ch]                                [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nIn the government store down in Cherokee Bend[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[CHORUS:]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nDaddy didn't like what the white man said[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]A7[/ch]\r\n'Bout the dirty little kid at his side[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nDaddy didn't like what the white man did[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nNor the deal or the way that he lied[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[VERSE 6:]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nFor three long days and three long nights[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThey wept and they mourned and then[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nShe returned to her work and her weaving[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]A7[/ch]                             [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd they tried to forget about Cherokee Bend[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[VERSE 7:]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nNow the boy wasn't big, but he hunted what he could[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd they lived for a time that way[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nBut the food run low and the meat went bad[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A7[/ch]     \r\nAnd she said to the boy one day[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[VERSE 8:]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\n\"I'm leaving tonight and I never will return[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]\r\nFrom the land of my Spirit Kin[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nYou must take what you need and trade what you can[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A7[/ch]                               [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nFor a Red Man's grave down in Cherokee Bend\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[CHORUS:]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nIt wasn't very long till she closed her eyes[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nAnd he wrapped her in a robe[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nHe found her a place on the side of the hill[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nAnd he buried her in the snow[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[VERSE 9:]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nEarly in the spring he was seen in the town[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWith his load, looking ragged and thin[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nNot a year had gone by when he stood once again[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A7[/ch]                                [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nIn the government store down in Cherokee Bend[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[VERSE 10:]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nHe was ten years tall and a Redskin too[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]F[/ch]\r\nSo he hadn't much face to save[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd the men sat around and they laughed and they clowned[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A7[/ch]   \r\nAt the talk of a criminal's grave[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[VERSE 11:]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nThen the man from the east didn't smile when he said[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]F[/ch]\r\n\"You're the son of that Indian scum[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nIf you value your hide then you better abide[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A7[/ch]                                  [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nBy the white man's rules, here in Cherokee Bend\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[CHORUS:]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nDaddy didn't like what the white man said[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]A7[/ch]\r\n'Bout the dirty little kid at his side[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nDaddy didn't like what the white man did[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nNor the deal or the way that he lied[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[VERSE 12:]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nThen he spit on the floor of the government store[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd it served him to no good end[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAt the close of the day they had taken him away[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A7[/ch]                                  [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nTo the white man's school down in Cherokee Bend[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[VERSE 13:]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nIt's been 21 years since the boy disappeared[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWhere he run to, nobody knows[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nBut they say he fell in with a man named Jim[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A7[/ch] \r\nAnd he rides in the rodeos[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[VERSE 14:]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nThey say he returned all alone to a place[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]\r\nHidden deep in the Kentucky glen[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd it's pretty well known who hauled up the stone[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A7[/ch]                               [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nTo the grave on the hill above Cherokee Bend[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[CHORUS:]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nDaddy didn't like what the white man said[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]A7[/ch]\r\n'Bout the dirty little kid at his side[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nDaddy didn't like what the white man did[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nNor the deal or the way that he lied[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[VERSE 15:]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nThere was blood on the floor of the government store[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWhen the men took his daddy away[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nIt was 1910 and they never had a friend[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A7[/ch]                                [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nWhen he died by the rope down at Cherokee Bend[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nIt was 1910 and they never had a friend[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A7[/ch]                                [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nWhen he died by the rope down at Cherokee Bend[/tab]","plain_text":"Gordon Lightfoot - Cherokee Bend\n\n\nCAPO: 4th Fret\n\n\n\n\n[INTRO:] Dm\n\n[VERSE 1:]\n\nHis father was a man who could never understand\n\n\n\n\n\n[VERSE 2:]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[CHORUS:]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[VERSE 3:]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[VERSE 4:]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[VERSE 5:]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[CHORUS:]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[VERSE 6:]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[VERSE 7:]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[VERSE 8:]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[CHORUS:]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[VERSE 9:]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[VERSE 10:]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[VERSE 11:]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[CHORUS:]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[VERSE 12:]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[VERSE 13:]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[VERSE 14:]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[CHORUS:]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[VERSE 15:]","chords":["Dm","F","A7","Gm"],"chord_diagrams":{"A7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,0,2,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,0,2,0]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"Gm":{"barres":[3],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,1,1,1],"frets":[3,5,5,3,3,3]}}}