Chords for John D. Loudermilk: The Story Behind "Indian Reservation" on the "Viva! NashVegas® Radio Show"
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Indian reservation.
Oh, [E] yeah.
Yeah.
[C] I
Was coming from Nashville to back to Durham to [F#] visit my mother and father
[G] And I [C] got on top of the hill
[N] Cherokee I got snowed in and had to stop my little boat bus and go [E] to sleep
[G#] During the night
A tap came on the window
[N] Now you'd never do that now.
You wouldn't go you wouldn't park in the night and expect not to get hanged killed or whatever
But that little tap came on it.
It's a guy with a feather in his hand
And he said are you Mr.
Loud enough?
And I said yes something's happening.
He said [F#] follow me
So I [G#] got out of the car and [D] followed him through the snow down off the side of the road to a cave
down there underneath the road
[N] And there was a notice guy no, but he mean lazy.
He said you for national record
Maybe a kid would be that
which I did and
so there was a fire going and three or four guys sitting around the fire and
so he introduced himself as bloody back to me and
he was an Indian chief and
[F#]
He wanted to ask me to write a song about their plight the Cherokee Indians
[E] Yes, he knew I was a songwriter and he was very
persuasive in his not a demand but a
spirited request
[N] And so I came back and and wrote the song
well, it became a hit all over the world and
About 15 years after that we got a letter Susan I got a letter
Said you have been given the first
The other end of the trailer
The other end of the trailer tears and so I went there and we sat through this and it was wonderful and
The next morning he said I'd like to show you something so he took us to the archive
and he opened up a
not long narrow book ledger book an old ledger book that was kept by a
Senator dolls da governor yes [G#] during the trailer tears here had a list of all the song all of the
[C] Cherokee Indians that had been marched at bayonet [N] point from Cherokee
Which was a gold mine nobody's gotten into that yet
But this is we used to have all the gold over here in this section before they opened up gold in California
That's why they said well, we don't know but and so
He said I want you to look down
1600 people and I got to else and he was loud enough and he said these
[F#] Were your great [G#] great
And
[N] It was a Homer and Matilda well
91 years old and walked
1600 miles
Don't wanna and then farms for five years and he says why are you doing this to me?
He said because this award is the only award in the world
That we give to people because of their blood
Now the songs are actually blood
That's right, but I didn't know it when I wrote the song I wrote from the blood and then you
Oh, [E] yeah.
Yeah.
[C] I
Was coming from Nashville to back to Durham to [F#] visit my mother and father
[G] And I [C] got on top of the hill
[N] Cherokee I got snowed in and had to stop my little boat bus and go [E] to sleep
[G#] During the night
A tap came on the window
[N] Now you'd never do that now.
You wouldn't go you wouldn't park in the night and expect not to get hanged killed or whatever
But that little tap came on it.
It's a guy with a feather in his hand
And he said are you Mr.
Loud enough?
And I said yes something's happening.
He said [F#] follow me
So I [G#] got out of the car and [D] followed him through the snow down off the side of the road to a cave
down there underneath the road
[N] And there was a notice guy no, but he mean lazy.
He said you for national record
Maybe a kid would be that
which I did and
so there was a fire going and three or four guys sitting around the fire and
so he introduced himself as bloody back to me and
he was an Indian chief and
[F#]
He wanted to ask me to write a song about their plight the Cherokee Indians
[E] Yes, he knew I was a songwriter and he was very
persuasive in his not a demand but a
spirited request
[N] And so I came back and and wrote the song
well, it became a hit all over the world and
About 15 years after that we got a letter Susan I got a letter
Said you have been given the first
The other end of the trailer
The other end of the trailer tears and so I went there and we sat through this and it was wonderful and
The next morning he said I'd like to show you something so he took us to the archive
and he opened up a
not long narrow book ledger book an old ledger book that was kept by a
Senator dolls da governor yes [G#] during the trailer tears here had a list of all the song all of the
[C] Cherokee Indians that had been marched at bayonet [N] point from Cherokee
Which was a gold mine nobody's gotten into that yet
But this is we used to have all the gold over here in this section before they opened up gold in California
That's why they said well, we don't know but and so
He said I want you to look down
1600 people and I got to else and he was loud enough and he said these
[F#] Were your great [G#] great
And
[N] It was a Homer and Matilda well
91 years old and walked
1600 miles
Don't wanna and then farms for five years and he says why are you doing this to me?
He said because this award is the only award in the world
That we give to people because of their blood
Now the songs are actually blood
That's right, but I didn't know it when I wrote the song I wrote from the blood and then you
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Indian reservation.
Oh, [E] yeah.
Yeah.
_ [C] I
Was coming from Nashville to back to Durham to [F#] visit my mother and father
[G] And I [C] got on top of the hill
_ [N] _ Cherokee I got snowed in and had to stop my little boat bus and go [E] to sleep
_ _ [G#] During the night
A tap came on the window
[N] Now you'd never do that now.
You wouldn't go you wouldn't park in the night and expect not to get hanged killed or whatever
But that little tap came on it.
It's a guy with a feather in his hand
And he said are you Mr.
Loud enough?
And I said yes something's happening.
He said _ [F#] follow me
So I [G#] got out of the car and [D] followed him through the snow down off the side of the road to a cave
down there underneath the road
[N] And there was a notice guy no, but he mean lazy.
He said you for national record
Maybe a kid would be that
which I did and
so there was a fire going and three or four guys sitting around the fire and
so he introduced himself as bloody back to me and
he was an Indian chief and
[F#]
He wanted to ask me to write a song about their plight the Cherokee Indians
_ [E] Yes, he knew I was a songwriter and he was very
_ persuasive in his not a demand but a
spirited request
[N] And so I came back and and wrote the song
well, it became a hit all over the world and _
_ _ About 15 years after that we got a letter Susan I got a letter _ _ _
Said you have been given the first _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
The other end of the trailer
The other end of the trailer tears and so I went there and we sat through this and it was wonderful and _
_ _ _ The next morning he said I'd like to show you something so he took us to the archive
and he opened up a
_ not long narrow book ledger book an old ledger book that was kept by a
_ Senator dolls da governor yes [G#] during the trailer tears here had a list of all the song all of the
[C] Cherokee Indians that had been marched at bayonet [N] point from Cherokee
Which was a gold mine nobody's gotten into that yet
But this is we used to have all the gold over here in this section before they opened up gold in California
That's why they said well, we don't know but and so
He said I want you to look down
1600 people _ and I got to else and he was loud enough _ and he said these
[F#] _ Were your great [G#] great _
And
_ _ [N] _ It was a Homer and Matilda well
91 years old and walked
1600 miles
Don't wanna and then farms for five years and he says why are you doing this to me?
He said because this award is the only award in the world
That we give to people because of their blood _ _
Now the songs are actually blood
That's right, but I didn't know it when I wrote the song I wrote from the blood and then you
Oh, [E] yeah.
Yeah.
_ [C] I
Was coming from Nashville to back to Durham to [F#] visit my mother and father
[G] And I [C] got on top of the hill
_ [N] _ Cherokee I got snowed in and had to stop my little boat bus and go [E] to sleep
_ _ [G#] During the night
A tap came on the window
[N] Now you'd never do that now.
You wouldn't go you wouldn't park in the night and expect not to get hanged killed or whatever
But that little tap came on it.
It's a guy with a feather in his hand
And he said are you Mr.
Loud enough?
And I said yes something's happening.
He said _ [F#] follow me
So I [G#] got out of the car and [D] followed him through the snow down off the side of the road to a cave
down there underneath the road
[N] And there was a notice guy no, but he mean lazy.
He said you for national record
Maybe a kid would be that
which I did and
so there was a fire going and three or four guys sitting around the fire and
so he introduced himself as bloody back to me and
he was an Indian chief and
[F#]
He wanted to ask me to write a song about their plight the Cherokee Indians
_ [E] Yes, he knew I was a songwriter and he was very
_ persuasive in his not a demand but a
spirited request
[N] And so I came back and and wrote the song
well, it became a hit all over the world and _
_ _ About 15 years after that we got a letter Susan I got a letter _ _ _
Said you have been given the first _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
The other end of the trailer
The other end of the trailer tears and so I went there and we sat through this and it was wonderful and _
_ _ _ The next morning he said I'd like to show you something so he took us to the archive
and he opened up a
_ not long narrow book ledger book an old ledger book that was kept by a
_ Senator dolls da governor yes [G#] during the trailer tears here had a list of all the song all of the
[C] Cherokee Indians that had been marched at bayonet [N] point from Cherokee
Which was a gold mine nobody's gotten into that yet
But this is we used to have all the gold over here in this section before they opened up gold in California
That's why they said well, we don't know but and so
He said I want you to look down
1600 people _ and I got to else and he was loud enough _ and he said these
[F#] _ Were your great [G#] great _
And
_ _ [N] _ It was a Homer and Matilda well
91 years old and walked
1600 miles
Don't wanna and then farms for five years and he says why are you doing this to me?
He said because this award is the only award in the world
That we give to people because of their blood _ _
Now the songs are actually blood
That's right, but I didn't know it when I wrote the song I wrote from the blood and then you