One incongruity if not absurdity in "Cherokee Bend" by Gordon Lightfoot (forgive me GL) that has always bothered me says:
It was early in the spring when the snow had disappeared they came down with a bag of skins
In the fall of the year of 1910, Daddy died by the rope down in Cherokee Bend.

Since the whole affair that got 'Daddy' hung took place in the store where he was trying to trade the skins and you get the impression that 'Daddy' killed or seriously injured someone for what they said about his "dirty little kid at his side", why did it take 4 to 6 months for him to be hanged? The second verse says the boy stayed there until his father came to his end before he ran away back to his mother. Doesn't the length of the whole event stretch credibility, especially considering that the song was a commentary on bigotry against the Indians by the whites?
SC