Among the Americans

Among The Americans
 dance to the sun
 a kiss to the earth
 embrace a stone
 come the small black book
 come the brandy cask
 one strange disease
 the well worded paper
 signed by the drunken
 hands of thieves
 and suddenly
 they were told to leave
 as the snake uncoiled on a road
 the length was eighty miles
 wagons' weary horses
 lead the feverish exiles
 barefoot in the early snow
 on a ridge
 where they beheld their home
 coarse and barren
 not the haven
 promised by the Father
 Jaksa Chula Harjo * X3
 the Red Sticks first and
 the Dancing Ghosts were
 pierced with arms of fire
 and the weeping widows
 left could not avenge
 so the Western Star manifest its will
 drove them clear into the Pacific O
 gone the way of flesh
 turned pale and died
 by your god's decree
 for he hated me
 * Cherokee name for Andrew Jackson the 7th president of the U.S.A.