Orlando Riva Sound (ORS) - Indian Reservation 1979

Original by Don Fardon 1968

They took the whole Cherokee nation
Put us on this reservation

They took away our native tongue
Taught their English to a young
And all the beets we made by hand
Are nowadays made in Japan.

Cherokee people
Cherokee tribes
So proud to live
So proud to die

They took the whole Indian nation
Put us on this reservation
And so they change our way of home
They'll never change our heart and soul.

Cherokee people
Cherokee tribes
So proud to live
So proud to die

(Instrumental)

Cherokee people
Cherokee tribes
So proud to live
So proud to die

And some day when the world is learned
Cherokee Indian will return
Will return, will return, will return, will return.