Give me 15 minutes and Ill write a song

Blankets for the middle child
Throw one back I'm in denial
Call me names a black bear's prey
I carry medicine all the way
Blankets for the baby's death
Small pox cherub on my back
Heard him cry to ancient laughs
Seems if history's killed the path
Seems if history paints me black

Raining how the thunder rolls
Who's to blame - I'm sorry
Dancing without tears held back
In her shawl she's mourning
Dried out grasses swish the past
Can't you hear them laughing?
Holding palms up to the sky
Lines still drawing stories

Trail of Tears drip single file
Throw one back it's been awhile
Forgive the pain of buffalo
Bodies left dead in the snow
And I'll be damned if you think he
Could collapse the tallest tree
Horse stand here by baby's grave
There young ones were the give-away
His heart was the give-away
Memories hardened in the clay
His heart was the give-away
Memories hardened in the clay

Blankets for her bleeding back
Help her stand by corn stalk shafts
I heard a young boy sing a song
Father's words came flowing on
Eyes burnt out he threw one back
Drives off in a cadillac

Raining how the thunder rolls
Who's to blame - I'm sorry
Dancing without tears held back
In her shawl she's mourning
Dried out grasses swish the past
Can't you hear them laughing?
Holding palms up to the sky
Lines still drawing stories...