This song is about The Trail of Tears, courtesy of that turd President Andrew Jackson, whose life was actually saved by a Cherokee! Can you believe that? Jackson promised respect and friendship in return, But a few years later was campaigning to kick not just the Cherokee but 4 other tribes off their lands too and use the Yoonited States Army to herd the native Americans into 'Indian Territory' (now called Oklahoma) and hand their lands over to slaveholders and prospectors. Those slaveholders would later secede from the Yoonion in order to retain their freedom to keep (and brutally abuse) slaves, and cause a war in which well over 300,000 died.
Can you believe that?!
That can't be right.
Can it?
Cherokee - Europe
They lived in peace, not long ago
A mighty Indian tribe
But the winds of change,
Made them realize, that the promises were lies.
The white man's greed, in search of gold
Made the nation bleed
They lost their faith
And now they had to learn
There was no place to return
Nowhere they could turn.
Cherokee - marching on the trail of tears.
They were driven hard, across the plains
And walked for many moons
Cause the winds of change,
Had made them realize, that the promises were lies.
So much to bear, all that pain
Left them in despair
They lost their faith
And now they had to learn
There was no place to return
Nowhere they could turn.
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