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The Crofter And The Cherokee

from SKAIL by Malcolm MacWatt

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“The Crofter and The Cherokee” links the Highland Clearances with the Trail of Tears as a Georgia native travels back in time tracing his family roots up the Appalachian Trail and across the Atlantic to Scotland. In this song the fiddle motif represents Scotland with the banjo and resonator guitar sounding off for America.

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I’m standing here in Dalton, Georgia
Looking back and looking east
I know there’s a big wide ocean
With the Blue Ridge Mountains between

My family roots run back to Scotland
Poor and hungry looking west
They sailed across the sea to Portland
And drifted south on another quest

Red mud of Georgia in my veins
Blood of the red man runs there too
Reservations …… relocations
The lies of the red white and blue

​CH: The crofter and the Cherokee
Pushed out forced down on their knees
The clearances and the Trail of Tears
The crofter and the Cherokee

​Burns said “a man’s a man for a’ that”
This state had ideals just the same
To treat all men fair and equal and a’ that
I hope someday we will again

A man who’s suffered to extreme ends
All too soon forgets his pain
He’ll justify profit by all means
He’ll keep a slave for his own gain

The Appalachian Trail is waiting
From Georgia up the coast to Maine
2000 miles of wild walking
To retrace my steps home again

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from SKAIL, released July 4, 2020

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Malcolm MacWatt London, UK

“MacWatt will doubtless be considered among the best of the new breed of folksingers and songwriters, who speak of the past as a way to perhaps understand it and move forward” Stephen Rapid, Lonesome Highway

“He shines as a singer and he shines as an interpreter of the eternal folk songbook,” Tom Brosseau, The Great American Folk Show, North Dakota ... more

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