Trail of Tears - Heather Dale

All the leaves were turning brown

As we marched through Tennessee

Herding men like Moses did into the dusty sea

And though they cried to Jesus still

We did as we was told

Mother Mercy looked away and

The sky was thick with crows

They say there's a difference 'tween

The white man and the red

That though they pray and work like me

They're something else instead

President Jackson says it's best

But he ain't the one to go

Mother Mercy looked away and

The sky was thick with crows

So I marched down the trail of tears

With a rifle in my hand

With orders not to pick them up

If anyone couldn't stand

And though the sun was shining down

That trail to Hell still froze

Mother Mercy looked away and

The sky was thick with crows

Daniel Thorton held his tongue 'til

He couldn't hold it back

He raised his voice to the Major's

Guns so they shot him in his tracks

Their bodies fed those feathered

Coats on blackened wings they rose

Mother Mercy looked away and

The sky was thick with crows

What do you tell a mother

Who can't feed her starving child

How can you tell a boy of ten

To march a thousand miles

What do you tell your children

When they ask what words you chose

When Mother Mercy looked away

And he sky was thick with crows