Henri Martain ft. the Coal Biters Lyrics

Daddy came over on the boat from France

Port St. Augustine

He hit out north by northwest

Blue Ridge Mountains

Cherokee

He met an Indian girl

She was the sister of a chief

He went looking for a brand new life that's what he found

Blue Ridge Mountains

Cherokee

Daddy didn't know

Where the road would lead

Was hoping something better than he left behind

There ain't no telling what kind of good tomorrow might bring

Seems we're all just walking blind

Seven summers pass

The house started filling up

Three brand new mouths to feed

Henri Martain got hisself a farm and a family

Blue Ridge Mountains

Cherokee

Little did we know where the road would lead

Everything we'd have to leave behind

There ain't no telling what kind of wickedness the next day brings

I never believed that man could be so unkind

Seems we're all just walking blind

Daddy was a white man, so they would have let him stay

They'd let him keep his house and keep his farm

But they wouldn't let him keep his Cherokee bride

Half-breed daughters and son by his side

No, they'd have to leave

With the Blue Ridge Mountain Cherokee

It was twenty three years he spent building up this place

And daddy ain't a young man anymore

Is there anywhere left in the whole wide world that's safe?

Where you can build a life and they won't take it all away?

They just come along and take it all away

Daddy didn't know where the road would lead

Hoping something better than he left behind

There ain't no telling what kind of good tomorrow might bring

Seems we're all just walking blind

Mama, she's walking and crying

Seems we're all just walking blind