Don Fardon- Indian reservation (Lyrics)

Don Fardon, geb.: 19.8.1943

Indian Reservation
They took the whole Indian nation

put us on this resevation

took away our way of life

tomahawk and the prairie-knife.
Took away our native tongue

Taught their English to our young

and all the beads we made by hand
are nowadays made in Japan.
Cherokee people
Cherokee tribe

so proud you lived
so proud you'll die.

They took the whole Indian nation

put us on this reservation

brick built houses by the score

won't need tepees anymore.
Although they've changed our ways of old

they'll never change our heart and soul

and suddenly when the world has learned

Cherokee Indian will return.
Will return
will return

will return
will return
will return!

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[basil226]

I spend hours on youtube looking for old songs from my childhood. I'd completely forgotten this classic, but how the memories are flooding back! Thanks for posting!

[waggonburner007]

I have spent my last 30 years taking land back!! I pray at my alter the NAC Way!! I am not the only one fighting the modern war!! This war is using paper with the face of a trader "Jackson" and taking back our land!! Calling down the spirits of our old to sing and dance on free Cherokee "Tsa-la-gi" Land Again!!

Wado

[DrEdFeraco]

Loved that song as a young child! Always felt connected to Native Americans and felt what was done to them was disgusting to say the least!

[aherna9557]

The 1959 rendition has some different words

[aherna9557]

my favorite version, Sexy voice

[taintedtannis]

@Malo64 You are obviously a tone deaf retard!! Fardon couldn't carry a tune if it had handles on it!! I may have been in error, but I still think the Raider's version SOUNDS SOOOOOOO MUCH better than this shitty version!!!! I guess there is reason Paul Revere and The Raiders are remembered for thier singing of this song and Fardon faded away into oblivion!!

[eddiestardust]

@basil226 God Bless you and Good luck!

[Malo64]

@taintedtannis Fardon 1968 Raiders 1971 - Fact

[Malo64]

@taintedtannis You obviously didn't research very well .... Don's version was before the raiders and is far superior than rever's "pop" song with synthesisers and his girly american voice

[taintedtannis]

I never got to hear the first version, but if martymefurst is right then I would listen to it. But Don Fardon's version just blows. The man has no fire, no conviction about what he is singing for in the song. Mark Lindsay and The Raiders version was far superior to Don Fardon's version. If anyone has a link or knows where the original version by Martin Rainwater can be heard, please let me know.

[fumetti]

@taintedtannis Raiders' version came out in 1971...Fardon's came out in 1968.

[ksiebert631]

Yea I'm part Cherokee. And yea Cherokee will return.