[talbot10]

Originally posted by waltsongs:
Hello,
I haven't posted here in a while. I'm definately no Gordon Lightfoot, but I've completed another Lightfoot sounding song. I was trying for something along the lines of Cherokee Bend.
The Song is titled "Back in Time", and is about the Cherokee Trail of Tears. You can grab the MP3 at:
http://www.safossils.com/waltsongs/YCGBIT1.mp3

Any feedback or comments appreciated.

Best Regards,
Walt

Here are the lyrics....

Back in Time
(The Cherokee Trail of Tears)
© 2006 Walter Farmer

It was late in Eighteen thirty when trouble first began
A policy of removal set to law by crooked hands
Pushed a peacfull Cherokee people
From their eastern woodland homes
To the plains of Oklahoma

They say you can't go back in time
Sure seems to me like someone should
They say you can't go back in time
But I'd re-write me some history if I could

They fought a crooked system but the crooked system won
So they left for Oklahoma through snow and burnin' sun
Starvation and diseases left a string of unmarked graves
Along the way to Oklamhoma

They say you can't go back in time
Sure seems to me like someone should
They say you can't go back in time
But I'd re-write me some history if I could

It's Half a paragraph in a slanted history book
Painted over and not what it appears
When 16 thousand men women and children
Were forced to walk a Trail of Tears

It was late in Eighteen thirty when trouble first began
A policy of removal set to law by crooked hands
Pushed a peacfull Cherokee people
From their eastern woodland homes
To the plains of Oklahoma

They say you can't go back in time
Sure seems to me like someone should
They say you can't go back in time
But I'd re-write me some history if I could