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Thread #37666   Message #4126087
Posted By: Joe Offer
13-Nov-21 - 11:15 PM
Thread Name: ADD: Little Big Horn & Custer's Last Stand
Subject: ADD: Little Big Horn
"Little Big Horn" appears on a 1961 RCA album by the Belafonte Singers conducted by Robert DeCormier titled The Belafonte Folk Singers At Home and Abroad. The album cover (click) gives just the chorus of each song on the record.

LITTLE BIG HORN
(New words to an old American folk tune)

Indians gathered to hold a war dance
Out along, all along Little Big Horn —
Little Big Horn, Low Dog, Spotted Eagle, Red Horn, and Gall,
Two Moon, Little Knife, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull, Chief of them all.


I found the full text of the song in The Master Book of American Folk Song", by Riley Shepard (1983)

THE LITTLE BIG HORN

The Indians gathered to hold a war dance
Out along, all along Little Big Horn;
Each Brave had a bow, a shield and a lance,
And there on the prairie they started to dance

CHORUS
With Low Dog, Spotted Eagle, Red Horn and Gall;
Two Moon, Little Knife, Crazy Horse,
And Sitting Bull, Chief of them all,
Old Sitting Bull, Chief of them all!

The soldiers with Custer came riding that day
Out along, all along Little Big Horn;
Each soldier had orders he had to obey.
To capture or kill all the redskins that day
With Low Dog, etc.

The drums of war sounded that Sunday in June,
Out along, all along Little Big Horn;
The battle got started around about noon—
The soldiers were killed that Sunday in June
By Low Dog, etc,

George Custer, the general, sought glory they said,
Out along, all along Little Big Horn;
But there on the prairie he lay with the dead—
The glory he wanted was taken instead
By Low Dog, etc,


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