by: Paul Revere and the Raiders

They took the whole Cherokee nation...
Put us on this reservation...
Took away our ways of life...
The tomahawk and the boewy knife...
Took away our native tongue
And taught their english,
to our young...
And all the beads we made hand,
are now-a-days made in Japan

****chorus****
Cherokee people...
Cherokee tribe...
So proud to live...
So proud to die...

They took the whole Indian nation
Locked us on this reservation
Though I wear a shirt and tie
I'm still part red-man deep inside

****chorus****
Cherokee people...
Cherokee tribe...
So proud to live...
So proud to die...

Now maybe someday when we've learned,
Cherokee nation will return...
Will return...
Will return...