RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: TRUE HISTORY
A Long Hard Road Part II
The great war between the states
The war of the whites over black slaves
was a blessing to the Cherokee and
all other native tribes
The whites with their weapons and their
endless thirst for land and treasure
left them in peace
The Cherokee thrived
against all odds and all manner of adversity
the Cherokee survived
But when the great war ended and the slaves
were freed the whites remembered
They saw what the Cherokee did
That their tribal ways and culture endured
They saw and didn’t like what they saw
Injuns were supposed to learn the white ways
They weren’t supposed to live in tribes
The were supposed to live in homes
with fenced yards and small farms
So they passed laws that broke up the land
into small lots that couldn’t survive hard times
So they passed a law that paved a highway
over the red road of days past
They called it the Oklahoma Land Rush
So the Cherokee and others were pushed
out of their homes once again
They became tenant farmers working the land
alongside poor white farmers for next to
nothing just to put food on the table
The Cherokee found a way
The poor white farmers not so much
But that’s another story
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