Post by Julie on May 30, 2005 14:38:09 GMT -5
TomBigBee
to you
it's another day
to me
it's a grim reaping
just another
shooting star
strung out
on your wire
prick my finger
on his
virgin silver
he told me
raw
ginger -
it carmelized me
TomBigBee
TomBigBee
help me hang
these bones
gotta hang
these bones
out to dry
he loved me
he loved me
ravishingly low
gonna hang
these bones
out to dry
dry
dry
dry
got a Blackberry Stain
and they're not even
in season
if you're
not yet a woman
you got no business
playin' at this
so you get done
then you get some
sure 'nough it
won't hold you for long
then you say
"right.
this is all mine."
but hasn't
your donor card expired?
from Blueridge
to Cattail
on the Prairie
from flyover country
back through Mississippi
I said,
"go man
you go
well you raise me 20
I'm raising you
5 hundred treaties!"
I said
"go man
you go
'cause I'm trailin'
her tears
the ones you
won't hold
you roll me
a carpet
roll me
a carpet Boy
roll me
a carpet
from here
to Oklahoma!"
TomBigBee
TomBigBee
help me hang
these bones
gotta hang
these bones
out to dry
he loved me
he loved me
ravishingly low
gonna hang
these bones
out to dry
dry
dry
dry
I'll do it again
dry
dry
dry
dry
Here's Tori's description of it:
Tombigbee appears to be a reference to the Tombigbee River. The original Choctaw (Native American) homeland took in most of what is now the state of Mississippi, plus some smaller land holdings in what are now the present states of Georgia and Alabama. It was rich land, bordered on the west by the Mississippi River, and included the rich bottomlands of both the Tombigbee and Pearl Rivers and their tributaries plus millions of acres of rich timber and hunting lands. It was decided by the U. S. Military, who found themselves looking at a French port just across the river, that they needed an extensive "piece of pie" shaped chunk of the Choctaw Nation as a buffer against any possible French invasion through Indian country. Within two years, the United States negotiators were back with even bigger demands for Choctaw lands, which would give them most of the rich Tombigbee River valley farming lands. Despite very few Choctaws attending the negotiations, the conference agreed and the Treaty of Mount Dexter was signed Nov. 16, 1805. It is ironic to note that in this treaty the U.S. government pledged "this is the last time that the United States will ask the Choctaw Nation to give up any of its traditional homeland and will hereafter respect the Choctaw borders and Choctaw laws." They lived up to this pledge for 15 years. It should be noted that, in the meantime, between the 1805 Treaty of Mt. Dexter and 1820, there had been a major shift in policy concerning the Indians of the southeast within the U.S. Government. And, the decision had been reached that the southeastern tribes, including Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, Cherokees and Seminoles must be removed to "someplace in the west" giving all of the rich cotton growing lands east of the Mississippi to the whites.
to you
it's another day
to me
it's a grim reaping
just another
shooting star
strung out
on your wire
prick my finger
on his
virgin silver
he told me
raw
ginger -
it carmelized me
TomBigBee
TomBigBee
help me hang
these bones
gotta hang
these bones
out to dry
he loved me
he loved me
ravishingly low
gonna hang
these bones
out to dry
dry
dry
dry
got a Blackberry Stain
and they're not even
in season
if you're
not yet a woman
you got no business
playin' at this
so you get done
then you get some
sure 'nough it
won't hold you for long
then you say
"right.
this is all mine."
but hasn't
your donor card expired?
from Blueridge
to Cattail
on the Prairie
from flyover country
back through Mississippi
I said,
"go man
you go
well you raise me 20
I'm raising you
5 hundred treaties!"
I said
"go man
you go
'cause I'm trailin'
her tears
the ones you
won't hold
you roll me
a carpet
roll me
a carpet Boy
roll me
a carpet
from here
to Oklahoma!"
TomBigBee
TomBigBee
help me hang
these bones
gotta hang
these bones
out to dry
he loved me
he loved me
ravishingly low
gonna hang
these bones
out to dry
dry
dry
dry
I'll do it again
dry
dry
dry
dry
Here's Tori's description of it:
Tombigbee appears to be a reference to the Tombigbee River. The original Choctaw (Native American) homeland took in most of what is now the state of Mississippi, plus some smaller land holdings in what are now the present states of Georgia and Alabama. It was rich land, bordered on the west by the Mississippi River, and included the rich bottomlands of both the Tombigbee and Pearl Rivers and their tributaries plus millions of acres of rich timber and hunting lands. It was decided by the U. S. Military, who found themselves looking at a French port just across the river, that they needed an extensive "piece of pie" shaped chunk of the Choctaw Nation as a buffer against any possible French invasion through Indian country. Within two years, the United States negotiators were back with even bigger demands for Choctaw lands, which would give them most of the rich Tombigbee River valley farming lands. Despite very few Choctaws attending the negotiations, the conference agreed and the Treaty of Mount Dexter was signed Nov. 16, 1805. It is ironic to note that in this treaty the U.S. government pledged "this is the last time that the United States will ask the Choctaw Nation to give up any of its traditional homeland and will hereafter respect the Choctaw borders and Choctaw laws." They lived up to this pledge for 15 years. It should be noted that, in the meantime, between the 1805 Treaty of Mt. Dexter and 1820, there had been a major shift in policy concerning the Indians of the southeast within the U.S. Government. And, the decision had been reached that the southeastern tribes, including Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, Cherokees and Seminoles must be removed to "someplace in the west" giving all of the rich cotton growing lands east of the Mississippi to the whites.
