| Song | Ballad Of Yvonne Johnson |
| Artist | Eliza Gilkyson |
| Album | Land Of Milk And Honey |
| 作曲 : Gilkyson, Johnson | |
| my name is Yvonne Johnson, my native blood is Cree | |
| I’m here to tell the story of the life stolen from me | |
| my grandfather’s grandfather was the great war chief | |
| Big Bear | |
| and Flora my grandmother worked with medicine and | |
| prayer | |
| my mother’s from Saskatchewan, my dad’s U.S. marine | |
| and I was just a half-breed falling somewhere in | |
| between | |
| raised up in a reckless world of drugs and alcohol | |
| the police killed my brother Earl, the only one who | |
| cared at all | |
| cleft palate split my face in two, my words came soft | |
| and spare | |
| I lived in shame and ridicule, foundations of despair | |
| Daniel let the kids all watch when I was oly three | |
| he threw me on the table, forced himself inside me | |
| my brother Leon learned from him what I learned not to | |
| tell | |
| cause when my daddy found him then he had his way as | |
| well,boys, | |
| he took me down as well | |
| I didn’t have a language for the pain I suffered | |
| through | |
| escaping into marriage, but your past just catches up | |
| with you | |
| until I had three children and a ragged family | |
| a desperate urge to keep them from the wolves that got | |
| [ From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/e/eliza-gilkyson-lyrics/ballad-of-yvonne-johnson-lyrics.html ] | |
| to me, boys, | |
| wolves that got to me | |
| I wish I could forget that night, the way the cards all | |
| fell | |
| the deck was stacked against me and I played my part so | |
| well | |
| three days on the party in a drunken revelry | |
| Shirley Ann said Chuck had plans to lure my kids from | |
| me | |
| I wrapped the cord around him there, they beat him | |
| round the head | |
| they threw him down the cellar stairs and pulled the | |
| cord til he was dead | |
| courts set me up to take the fall, I went down silently | |
| I’m doing life in prison now for murder first degree, | |
| while they got leniency | |
| grandmother, grandmother, send your prayers to me | |
| protect me and my children, for I love them endlessly | |
| creator, creator, I have come alive | |
| medicine bear woman, doing life at 35, life at 35 | |
| I pray | |
| help me to make my amends to those that I have harmed | |
| grant them love and peace so they may understand I’m | |
| sorry | |
| help me share my shame and pain so others they might do | |
| the same | |
| and so awaken to themselves and to all people of this | |
| world | |
| hai hai | |
| hai hai | |
| aho |
| zuò qǔ : Gilkyson, Johnson | |
| my name is Yvonne Johnson, my native blood is Cree | |
| I' m here to tell the story of the life stolen from me | |
| my grandfather' s grandfather was the great war chief | |
| Big Bear | |
| and Flora my grandmother worked with medicine and | |
| prayer | |
| my mother' s from Saskatchewan, my dad' s U. S. marine | |
| and I was just a halfbreed falling somewhere in | |
| between | |
| raised up in a reckless world of drugs and alcohol | |
| the police killed my brother Earl, the only one who | |
| cared at all | |
| cleft palate split my face in two, my words came soft | |
| and spare | |
| I lived in shame and ridicule, foundations of despair | |
| Daniel let the kids all watch when I was oly three | |
| he threw me on the table, forced himself inside me | |
| my brother Leon learned from him what I learned not to | |
| tell | |
| cause when my daddy found him then he had his way as | |
| well, boys, | |
| he took me down as well | |
| I didn' t have a language for the pain I suffered | |
| through | |
| escaping into marriage, but your past just catches up | |
| with you | |
| until I had three children and a ragged family | |
| a desperate urge to keep them from the wolves that got | |
| From: http: www. elyrics. net read e elizagilkysonlyrics balladofyvonnejohnsonlyrics. html | |
| to me, boys, | |
| wolves that got to me | |
| I wish I could forget that night, the way the cards all | |
| fell | |
| the deck was stacked against me and I played my part so | |
| well | |
| three days on the party in a drunken revelry | |
| Shirley Ann said Chuck had plans to lure my kids from | |
| me | |
| I wrapped the cord around him there, they beat him | |
| round the head | |
| they threw him down the cellar stairs and pulled the | |
| cord til he was dead | |
| courts set me up to take the fall, I went down silently | |
| I' m doing life in prison now for murder first degree, | |
| while they got leniency | |
| grandmother, grandmother, send your prayers to me | |
| protect me and my children, for I love them endlessly | |
| creator, creator, I have come alive | |
| medicine bear woman, doing life at 35, life at 35 | |
| I pray | |
| help me to make my amends to those that I have harmed | |
| grant them love and peace so they may understand I' m | |
| sorry | |
| help me share my shame and pain so others they might do | |
| the same | |
| and so awaken to themselves and to all people of this | |
| world | |
| hai hai | |
| hai hai | |
| aho |