Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian) by Paul Revere and the Raiders (TESOL Songsheet)

(TESOL Worksheets)

Google: drive, docs, pub

Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian) by Paul Revere and the Raiders (1971)

hand, inside, Japan, knife, learned, life, nation, nation, reservation, reservation, return, tie, tongue, young

They took the whole Cherokee____________
Put us on this ____________.
Took away our ways of ____________

The Tomahawk and the bow and ____________.

Took away our native ____________

And taught their English to our ____________.

And all the beads we made by ____________
Are nowadays made in ____________.

Cherokee people, Cherokee tribe,
So proud to live, so proud to die.

They took the whole Indian ____________,
Locked us on this ____________.

And though I wear a shirt and ____________,
I'm still a red man deep ____________.

Cherokee people, Cherokee tribe,
So proud to live, so proud to die.

But maybe someday when they’ve ____________,
The Cherokee Nation will ____________,
Will return, will return, will return, will return!

Answers

They took the whole Cherokee Nation
Put us on this reservation.
Took away our ways of life

The Tomahawk and the bow and knife.

Took away our native tongue

And taught their English to our young.

And all the beads we made by hand
Are nowadays made in Japan.

Cherokee people, Cherokee tribe,
So proud to live, so proud to die.

They took the whole Indian Nation,
Locked us on this reservation.

And though I wear a shirt and tie,
I'm still a red man deep inside.

Cherokee people, Cherokee tribe,
So proud to live, so proud to die.

But maybe someday when they’ve learned,
The Cherokee Nation will return,
Will return, will return, will return, will return!