Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Ballad Of Yvonne Johnson, artist - Eliza Gilkyson. Album song Land of Milk and Honey, in the genre Музыка мираDate of issue: 22.03.2004
Record label: Red House
Song language: English
Ballad Of Yvonne Johnson |
| My name is Yvonne Johnson, my native blood is Cree |
| I’m here to tell the story of the life stolen from me |
| My grandfather’s grandfather was the great war chief Big Bear |
| And Flora my grandmother worked with medicine and prayer |
| My mother’s from Saskatchewan, my dad’s U.S. marine |
| And I was just a half-breed falling somewhere in between |
| Raised up in a reckless world of drugs and alcohol |
| The police killed my brother Earl, the only one who cared at all |
| Cleft palate split my face in two, my words came soft and spare |
| I lived in shame and ridicule, foundations of despair |
| Daniel let the kids all watch when I was oly three |
| He threw me on the table, forced himself inside me |
| My brother Leon learned from him what I learned not to tell |
| Cause when my daddy found him then he had his way as well, boys |
| He took me down as well |
| I didn’t have a language for the pain I suffered through |
| Escaping into marriage, but your past just catches up with you |
| Until I had three children and a ragged family |
| A desperate urge to keep them from the wolves that got to me, boys |
| Wolves that got to me |
| I wish I could forget that night, the way the cards all fell |
| The deck was stacked against me and I played my part so well |
| Three days on the party in a drunken revelry |
| Shirley Ann said Chuck had plans to lure my kids from me |
| I wrapped the cord around him there, they beat him round the head |
| They threw him down the cellar stairs and pulled the cord til he was dead |
| Courts set me up to take the fall, I went down silently |
| I’m doing life in prison now for murder first degree |
| While they got leniency |
| Grandmother, grandmother, send your prayers to me |
| Protect me and my children, for I love them endlessly |
| Creator, creator, I have come alive |
| Medicine bear woman, doing life at 35, life at 35 |
| I pray |
| Help me to make my amends to those that I have harmed |
| Grant them love and peace so they may understand I’m sorry |
| Help me share my shame and pain so others they might do the same |
| And so awaken to themselves and to all people of this world |
| Hai hai |
| Hai hai |
| Aho |