[00:19.46]Sussana Little
[00:21.54]Sussana Little
[00:23.60]Gone 'fore I ever arrived
[00:27.68]Questions that stream through my own Creek blood
[00:31.85]The odyssey of your life
[00:38.02]A motherless child , you were torn from your home
[00:41.86]By decree of the county affairs
[00:45.83]Good Christians, they gave you a lily-white dress
[00:49.97]And shorn back that Indian hair
[00:53.99]Told ya study your Bible, be silent and still
[00:58.16]And take to the ways of the whites
[01:02.47]Nothin' they offered could break down your will
[01:06.52]For you ran for the gates one night
[01:12.90]Sussana Little
[01:15.06]Sussana Little
[01:17.11]Gone 'fore I ever arrived
[01:21.19]Questions that stream through my own Creek blood
[01:25.26]Stories that keep you alive
[01:31.15]Your daddy , Joe Little, had woes of his own
[01:35.57]Drink was much stronger than greed
[01:39.50]But some in the city felt native red hands
[01:43.58]Were no place to let rest a deed
[01:47.37]Oklahoma was rich with the stench of black oil
[01:51.65]And the men who came there to drill
[01:55.29]In the sun baked clay of Indian lands
[01:59.92]There, in the desolate fields
[02:06.06]Sussana Little
[02:08.07]Sussana Little
[02:10.13]Gone 'fore I ever arrived
[02:14.10]Questions that stream through my own creek blood
[02:18.34]Songs that'a keep you alive
[02:32.80]Mysterious crimes, oh they swept through the county
[02:37.08]Waving the finger of blame
[02:40.96]Eyes turned to Joe Little
[02:43.12]A couple too many acres of land to his name
[02:48.63]No one would have heard the lone shot in the night
[02:52.87]They never posted his bail
[02:57.00]Big Joey Little, never walked out
[03:00.99]Of Sheriff Stanton's jail
[03:06.97]Sussana Little
[03:09.09]Sussana Little
[03:11.05]Gone 'fore I ever arrived
[03:15.12]Questions that stream through my own Creek blood
[03:19.20]The odyssey of your life
[03:25.11]For all of the lives you had lived this far
[03:29.37]No part of you could have known
[03:33.42]The evil hearts of the men who would fetch ya
[03:38.16]One night by the side of the road
[03:41.99]The moon, it grew dark and the frost would form
[03:46.33]Before ya finally were found
[03:50.31]Chained to a log in a torn white dress
[03:54.04]Shakin' wild eyed on the ground
[04:00.44]Sussana Little
[04:02.66]Sussana Little
[04:04.73]Gone 'fore I ever arrived
[04:08.76]Questions that stream through my own creek blood
[04:12.98]Such were the trials of your life...
[04:19.21]Yet in the years to come, you took a man
[04:23.09]Raised five of your own
[04:27.07]And for a spell it was as almost as though
[04:30.94]The light of justice had shown
[04:34.87]The hand that had written this part but for you
[04:38.89]And made it all plenty hard
[04:43.07]Gave you a gusher, a well spring of oil
[04:46.94]There in your own back yard
[04:52.97]So pile them kids in the plush back seat
[04:57.15]Ridin' shotgun in the Packard to town
[05:01.03]With your man, Tom Fisher, one hand on the wheel
[05:05.27]The other on your knee now
[05:11.40]Sussana Little
[05:13.62]Sussana Little
[05:15.64]Gone 'fore I ever arrived
[05:19.49]Questions that stream through my own Creek blood
[05:23.83]The odyssey of your life
[05:30.32]Sussana Little
[05:34.25]Sussana Little
[05:38.20]Sussana Little
[05:42.23]Sussana Little
[05:46.31]Sussana Little
[05:50.37]Sussana Little