Artist: Marvin Rainwater
Author: John Loudermilk
Label: MGM
Year: 1959
Rockabilly with Cherokee blood. Author John D. Loudermilk was also Cherokee for one sixteenth.
Covers:
John D. Loudermilk [author as Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian]
Lewis & Clarke Expedition [idem]
Roy Acuff Jr. [idem]
Don Fardon [n°3 UK as (Lament Of The Cherokee) Indian Reservation]
Paul Revere & The Raiders [n°1 US as Indian Reservation (Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian)]
Martin Circus [as l'Amie des esprits]
Orlando River Sound [disco hit GER as Indian Reservation]
Laibach [as National Reservation; comparing Eastern Europe with an Indian reservation]
Tim McGraw [at the end of Indian Outlaw]
Ed Kuepper [as Indian Reservation]
In a later live version Loudermilk explained the indian yell 'hoengja hoengja hee' as: 'This is Cherokee for: Andrew Jackson was some kind of a great S.O.B.'.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)