No Place For Young Men Lyrics

When Jim and Charlie were six years old

Hiram took em down to the boarding school

As a foster kid and a native father

I was forced to think that he was more than fool

Being placed with strangers is abrasive

Danger the erasure angle is a mormon tool

Too quaint to hang us too prayed to save us

So they just enslaved us then called it school

Couldn't believe that a Native dad would ever

Advocate for his kids being sent to a place like this

Not until I read about it being commonplace

Cause they thought an education would right the ship

Send 'em off the reservation get 'em all educated

Then they'll come back home and help us win

Gotta beat the pale face at his game

If you ever want a real chance to save your kin

Hiram was only looking out for the best

Of his sons and really that makes me bubble

The fact that he had to back track daddy had to

Cut slack in son's leash to milk the struggle

Hate to say it but it kind of worked

Don't negate or change it made Jim berserk

Being six years old and not understanding

Why you feel abandoned man it had to hurt

Charlie excelled but Jim expelled home

Twenty-three miles back down the trail

Ran from the Sac and Fox boarding school

Just to be sent back fam that's an L

At least he had his twin there to lean on

Charlie was the one who helped him be strong

Yet again he'd run away and be gone

Just to get sent back again it wouldn't be long

It was not a good place

For a young man

Try to run away and

Fall in the quick sand

I hope you have a strong

Heart that can withstand

Because it's not a good

Place for a young man

It was not a good place

For a young man

Try to run away and

Fall in the quick sand

I hope you have a strong

Heart that can withstand

Because it's not a good place

Back at school, running a fail

Jim didn't care to come out of his shell

Leaned on Charlie for the help to heal

He could count on twin cause he kept it real

Sad that his dad banned the man from home

Though he came to understand still what's the deal

Stuck at a standstill mush for meals

He was blessed with wheels so he had to peel

Suppose it only helped he had a love for thrill

Twenty-three miles back was a trot

At 9 years old he could've carried the rock

Like Jonas Metoxen known as Met the Ox

Ran through them miles like an eight man box

Lots of kids today couldn't fill them socks

Damn right he got respect from his pops

That's why he taught him how to farm the plot

Back at home dad let him stay a while

Even got to hang with his friends and play

Still he was different he was not like they

Shot his first deer at a real young age

Running, jumping, fishing, hunting

Roping cattle, getting money

Wrangling horses in the country

For survival nothing funny

All of this by nine years old

Hiram taught Jim to be hungry

By example and through stories

Of Chief Black Hawk's greatest glories

Feeling cruddy still he humbly

Sent his buddy on the way

Back to school to be with

Brother Charlie and to find his way

It was not a good place

For a young man

Try to run away and

Fall in the quick sand

I hope you have a strong

heart that can withstand

Because it's not a good

Place for a young man

It was not a good place

For a young man

Try to run away and

Fall in the quick sand

I hope you have a strong

Heart that can withstand

Because it's not a good place