George Leroy Chickashea Lyrics

The song George Leroy Chickashea is performed by Porter Wagoner in the album named Rubber Room: the Haunting Poetic Songs of Porter Wagoner 1966 - 1977 in the year 2006 .



The mixture of the blood that flowed through his veins
It killed his conscience and filled him with shame
He was part white part black part red
That's how he'd got the name George Lorey Chickashea
He had no respect or feeling for anyone including himself
He resented every man in his soul there was no salvation
And he hated the sight of cotton fields and his thoughts of planned nations
The bitterness set his soul afire when he'd think of Indians and reservations
He had the coldest grey eyes I've ever saw on a man
He could look clear through you and back again
And they'd look like the pieces of stone when he'd stare
There was a mixture in the texture of his hair
That hung low around his chinbones never high above his chin
I saw him kill a man with his own bare hands never showin' no mercy on him
He carried a pistol and a switchblade and a tomahawk with him night and day
The meanest man that ever lived George Lorey Chickashea
Yeah he had the quickness of lightning and could run like an antilope
He feared no man no gun or rope
I saw him watch a rattlesnake bite him on the leg he never batted an eye
Then he said get a taste of that blood crawl out there and die
They locked him in the security cell in Baton Rouge he stayed in one day
Iron bars couldn't hold George Lorey Chickashea
At last he gave himself up and said he was tired of runnin' away
So they spread the news that day they'd hang George Lorey Chickashea
He walked up the thirteen steps to the trapdoor
And stood on it with no expression in his eyes
And when the minister asked him if he wanted to pray
He looked toward the skies and said
God inside my veins flows blood of red all mixed with black and white
I have no race or creed I pray to die George Lorey Chickashea



Porter Wagoner - Rubber Room: the Haunting Poetic Songs of Porter Wagoner 1966 - 1977

Aug 2006

  1. Out of the Silence (Came a Song)
  2. Rubber Room
  3. George Leroy Chickashea
  4. Cassie
  5. Fairchild
  6. Indian Creek
  7. Lonely Comin' Down
  8. Bones
  9. Jim Johnson
  10. Lonelyville
  11. My Many Hurried Southern Trips
  12. As Simple as I Am
  13. Woman Hungry
  14. First Mrs Jones
  15. Cold Hard Facts of Life
  16. Shopworn
  17. Julie
  18. Carroll County Accident
  19. Let Me In
  20. Wino
  21. Bottom of the Bottle
  22. Nothing Between
  23. Crumbs from Another Man's Table
  24. He's Alone Again Tonight
  25. Life Rides the Train
  26. Little Boy's Prayer
  27. My Last Two Tens
  28. Party - Dolly Parton,
  29. Moments of Meditation

George Leroy Chickashea