Walk Far Woman (Ballad of Marie Dorion)
Ben Davis
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In 1786 Marie took her first breath The amazing tale that was her life is told long after her death Her life the stuff of legend Survival on her own A well of grit forever deep Found somewhere in her soul in her soul Her mama was born in the blood lines of the Iowa Tribe Her daddy was a Frenchman trapper chasing dreams and beaver hide A wife she became on a lost bet in a poker game There were aces high on a bluff from a drunk And her life forever changed ...forever changed The wind blows cold across these mountains The rivers flow to a different sea Left to die alone with two young ones in tow Being followed by a murder of crows Walk Far Woman....you got a long way to go Well in tow with Astors mean Soon her worried troubles grew It took all their wits and a load of luck to get passage from the Sioux But further up the Great River The Blackfeet weren't so kind Forced them all up the Yellowstone Which put far behind the coming snows The down the river they called the Mad Heading towards the setting sun Many a wild rapid they were forced to run But with the winter coming on They should have taken for the trail Instead they hung a right at Farewell Bend And began a fateful tale of starvation By the time they hit the Power River A babe was on the way The men left she and the kids for dead Headed on to Hot Lake Well the newborn didn't make it But somewhere deep inside With her natives skills she found the will To keep the other two alive....stayed alive It was 1812 when they hit Fort George Where the suns sets in the sea And come Springtime she headed East And made her way back up stream But a band of Shoshone warriors Killed her husband and his crew She spent two long months on her own Surviving in the Blues but she made it thru Her life the stuff of legend Survival on her own A well of grit forever deep Found somewhere in her soul in her soul
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