Cherokee Bend Chords by Gordon Lightfoot
- Key: Db
- BPM: 87
- Capo: no capo
PULSO FUERTE
CHEROKEE BEND ACORDES
[Start] [Verse] Gbm Gbm7 Gbm ■ ■ His father was a man who could never understand A The shame on the red man's face Gbm So they lived in the hills and they never came down Db7 But to trade in the white man's place Gbm Early in the spring when the snow had disappeared A They came down with a bag of skins Gbm In the fall of the year of nineteen ten Db7 Gbm Daddy died by the rope down in Cherokee Bend Bm Daddy didn't like what the white man said Db Db7 'bout the dirty little kid at his side Bm Daddy didn't like what the white man did Db7 Nor the deal or the way that he lied Gbm There was blood on the floor of the government store A When the men took his daddy away Gbm But the boy stayed back till he'd come to his end Db Db7 Gbm7 Gbsus4 Gbm Then he run like the wind from Cherokee Bend ■ ■ ■ [Inst] [Verse] Gbm Now the mother was alone and the winter was at hand A And she prayed to her spirit kin A It was warm in the lodge in the Kentucky hills Dbsus4 On the day when the boy came in Gbm Then a blizzard came down and it covered up the door A Till they thought that it never would end Gbm And he told her the tale of the terrible affair Db7 Dbsus4 Gb7 In the government store down in Cherokee Bend [Chorus] Bm Daddy didn't like what the white man said Db Db7 'bout the dirty little kid at his side Bm Daddy didn't like what the white man did Db7 Nor the deal or the way that he lied Gbm For three long days and three long nights A They wept and they mourned and then Gbm Db7 She returned to her work and her weavin' Gbm And they tried to forget about Cherokee Bend [Inst] Gbm7 Gbm Gbsus4 Gbm7 Gbm ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Verse] Gbm Now the boy wasn't big but he hunted what he could A And they lived for a time that way Gbm But the food run low and the meat went bad Db7 Gbm And she said to the boy one day Gbm I'm leavin' tonight and I never will return A From the land of my spirit kin Gbm You must take what you need and trade what you can Db7 Gbm For a red man's grave down in Cherokee Bend [Chorus] Bm It wasn't very long till she closed her eyes Db7 And he wrapped her in a robe Bm He found her a place on the side of a hill Db7 And he buried her in the snow Gbm Early in the spring he was seen comin' down A With his load lookin' ragged and thin Gbm Not a year had gone by till he stood once again Db7 Gbm In the government store down in Cherokee Bend [Inst] Dbm7 Bm Gbm Gbm7 Gbm ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Verse] Gbm He was ten years tall and a redskin too A So he hadn't much face to save Gbm And the men sat around and they laughed and they clowned Db7 At the talk of a criminal's grave Gbm Then a man from the east didn't smile when he said A You're the son of that indian scum A If you value your hide then you better abide Db7 Gbm Gb7 By the white man's rules here in Cherokee Bend Bm Daddy didn't like what the white man said Db7 'bout the dirty little kid at his side Bm Daddy didn't like what the white man did Db7 Nor the deal or the way that he lied Gbm And he spit on the floor of the government store A And it served him to no good end Gbm At the close of the day they had taken him away Dbsus4 To the white man's school down in Cherokee Bend [Solo] Gbm Gbm7 Gbsus4 Gbm7 Dbm7 Gbm ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Chorus] Gbm7 Gbm It's been twenty one years since the boy disappeared A Where he run to nobody knows Gbm But they say he fell in with a man named Jim Db7 And he rides in the rodeos Gbm And they say he returns all alone to a place A Hidden deep in the Kentucky glen Gbm And it's pretty well known who hauled up the stone Db7 Gbm To the grave on the hill above Cherokee Bend Bm Daddy didn't like what the white man said Db Db7 'bout the dirty little kid at his side Bm Daddy didn't like what the white man did Db Db7 Nor the deal or the way that he lied Gbm There was blood on the floor of the government store A When the men took his daddy away Gbm It was nineteen ten and they never had a friend Db7 Gbm When he died by the rope down in Cherokee Bend Gbm It was nineteen ten and they never had a friend [End] Db7 Gbm When he died by the rope down in Cherokee Bend