Dont Go Near The Indians Lyrics

Dont Go Near The Indians

{Son, don't go near the Indians
Please stay away
Son, don't go near the
Indians
Please do what I say}

Since I was just a little boy
I
liked to roam the hills
And to hear wild stories about the Indians
Was my
biggest thrill

I'd shout and yell and holler like heck
I wore
moccasins on my feet
And I'd make believe I was under a teepee
Every time
I went to sleep

My hair was jet black and I was twenty-one
Lots of
pretty girls around
But the paleface maidens didn't thrill me none
Around
my Cochise County hometown

{Son, don't go near the Indians
Please stay
away
Son, don't go near the Indians
Please do what I say}

One day I
went to the reservation
And there by a shallow creek
Was a beautiful
Indian a-fetchin' water
And I just had to speak

She smiled at me then
quickly left
But the next day she returned
And it wasn't very long till I
told her how
The love in my heart burned

{Son, don't go near the
Indians
Please stay away
Son, don't go near the Indians
Please do what
I say}

I told my daddy I'd found a girl
Who meant the world to
me
And tomorrow I'd ask the Indian chief
For the hand of
NovaLee

Dad's trembling lips spoke softly
As he told me of my
life
Twas then he said I could never take
This maiden for my
wife

SPOKEN:
Son, the white man and Indianss were fighting when you
were born
And a brave called Yellow Sun scalped my little boy
So I stole
you to get even for what he'd done
Though you're a full-blooded Indian,
son
I love you as much as my own little feller that's dead
And, son,
NovaLee is your sister
And that's why I've always
said

SINGING:
{Son, don't go near the Indians
Please stay
away
FADE:
Son, don't go near the Indians
Please do what I say}