Yellow Creek - John Anderson

Oh those Yellow Creek waters bathed the sons and daughters

Of an Indian nation called the Cherokee

Then came those pioneer settlers that drove the Indians westward

Far from their home down on Yellow Creek

Now it’s many years later, I’m living in the nature

Of this Indian paradise called Tennessee

Where I find those broken arrows that flew like the sparrows

The sparrows that still fly down on Yellow Creek

Oh those Yellow Creek waters bathed the sons and daughters

Of an Indian nation called the Cherokee

Through the blood-stained years they walk the Trail of Tears

Crying for their home down on Yellow Creek

Sometimes my wife and babies think I’m going crazy

When I talk about the things I see and hear when they’re asleep

Like those Indian children playing, singing and a-saying

This is their home down on Yellow Creek

Oh those Yellow Creek waters bathed the sons and daughters

Of an Indian nation called the Cherokee

Through the blood-stained years they walk the Trail of Tears

Crying for their home down on Yellow Creek

Oh those Yellow Creek waters bathed the sons and daughters

Of an Indian nation called the Cherokee

Through the blood-stained years they walk the Trail of Tears

Crying for their home down on Yellow Creek