"Savage Land" genre: Native American
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	This song is about the Trail of Tears. I wrote it imagining that I was a woman walking this terrible journey westward not so many years ago at the orders of Andrew Jackson, and I was remembering when the land was truly free, and so was I. This spent two weeks at #1 on the Native American charts in February 2003. Click the song title of any of these songs to read the lyrics and song stories.
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	Story Behind the Song This song is about the orders to remove the Cherokee people from their homes, forcing them to migrate to Oklahoma in the winter of 1838-39, which became known as the Trail of Tears because of the suffering endured by the people as they moved. This song is about how the people who walked the "trail" might have felt as their lives were shattered apart by people who saw native americans as nothing more than savages who didn't deserve the lands they had lived on all their lives. Today Andrew Jackson is on our twenty-dollar bill. Lyrics Dark wind blowing on me tonight my feet are broken and my baby just died Jackson said we're not civilized So we're moving west, he said that's best for a savage land, for a savage land Cold snow falling on me today my horse is tired but still she carries me I want to go back home but they burned it down I want to go back home but there's no room for a savage town, for a savage town Not so many moons ago I watched a red bird fly floating circles round and round beneath a hazeless sky floating circles round and round beneath a hazeless sky above a free land above a free land Hard rage burning my heart tonight my horse broke down, she died and I'm not going to make it my blood falls out of me it's red just like the president's but all he sees is red skin from a savage land from a savage land not so many moons ago I watched a red bird fly floating circles round and round beneath a hazeless sky floating circles round and round beneath a hazeless sky above a free land above a free land

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