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Grass Stopped Growing
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History from the Cherokee point-of-view
alternative blues comedy
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Alternative. Blues. Comedy. Acoustic. Folk. Jazz. Protest. Country. Car songs. Motorcycle songs. Horse songs. Songs about mothers. Songs about being a mother.
Musically, I'm a storyteller. As a storyteller, I use music. Note, 5/10/06: I just took "Ridin' In Alone" off the page, because in my studies (I'm doing my Master of Arts in Humanities, with a Storytelling emphasis, at Prescott College) I have begun to do archival research, and that was one of several songs that were just not correct. Bits and pieces of it were, but the whols thing was incorrect... Damn! And it was one of my favorites! I have rewritten the lyrics, keeping the melody and chorus, and centered on Father Kino, an amazing man who did indeed ride alone throughout Apacheland in the late 1600's, building missions and bringing cattle, wheat, and orchards to Alta Pimeria. Gotta re-record it. I am mostly working by myself right now, although Bill Vasquez (keyboard, small brass, flutes) and I have long-range plans for recording and performing some wildly jazzy stuff. Working to pay the bills, unfortunately, gets in the way of musical time together at this point.
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Peak #620
Peak in subgenre #78
Author
MaryK
Rights
1996, 2003
Uploaded
February 18, 2004
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MP3 3.3 MB 128 kbps 0:00
Story behind the song
Living in Spavinaw, Oklahoma, I became friends with a Cherokee stroy-teller and learned all kinds of things that aren't exactly in the history books.
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You told us this would be our land As long as the grass would grow You said there'd be no more demand As long as the water flowed... But on April 22nd Back in 1889 That's when the first Land Run happened It's the Indians' day to mourn... 'Cause the grass stopped growing today And the water stopped flowing away And the promise that we knew would be broken by you-- We no longer believe what you say. We were civilized and had a fine home In a land with an Indian name Where the deer and buffalo roam Long before the white man came... There were other abuses before But the Land Runs are famous, you know Some people will always want more As long as the waters flow
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