Live 23 Oct 1971 version
Ah she's a Cherokee queen-a
Yeah prettiest thing I have ever seen
She's an Oklahoma lady
And she drives me crazy
I don't know what it is about her
But I just can't live without her
She's got me in a trance sir
In her heart she's a dancer
Like the wind she silently comes
The melody she sweetly hums
She's got the words to all my songs
She sang to me all night long
She goes, "Daddy sing me a cradle song
Like you did a long time ago
Daddy sing me a silly song
Won't you rock my crazy bones"
"Daddy sing me a cradle song
Like you did a long time ago
Daddy sing me a silly song
Won't you rock my crazy bones"
It's alright
It's alright
It's alright
Yeah mama it's alright
It's alright
Ah strayed off her reservation
Oh and into my arms
Bringing bad legislation
Ah with her Indian charms
I don't know what it is she does sir
Ah that make me wanna love her
It's that crazy way of smiling
Oh it just drives the boys wild
Reminds me of one of my high school haunts
She knows what I need and she knows what I want
She's got the words to all our songs
And she sang to me all night long
She goes, "Daddy sing me a cradle song
Like you did a long time ago
Daddy sing me a silly song
Won't you rock my crazy bones"
"Daddy sing me a cradle song
Like you did a long time ago
Daddy sing me a silly song
Won't you rock my crazy bones"
It's alright
It's alright
It's alright
(It's alright)
It's alright
It's alright now
It's alright
She's a Cherokee queen
The prettiest thing I've ever seen
Ah she's my Oklahoma lady
And she drives me crazy
I don't know what it is about her
But then I just can't live without her
Ah she's got me in a trance sir
In her heart she's a dancer
Like the wind she silently comes
The melody she sweetly hums
She's got the words to all my songs
And she sang to me all night long
"Daddy sing me a cradle song
Like you did a long time ago
Daddy sing me a silly song
Won't you rock my crazy bones", get it!
"Daddy sing me a cradle song
Like you did a long time ago
Daddy sing me a silly song
Won't you rock my crazy bones"
"Daddy sing me a silly song
Like you did a long time ago
Daddy sing me a silly song
Won't you rock my crazy bones"
[Spoken outro:] Thank you.
The above lyrics are for the live 23 Oct 1971 performance of CHEROKEE QUEEN at University Of Richmond in Richmond, VA, with The Bruce Springsteen Band.
The Bruce Springsteen Band played a triple-bill show 23 Oct 1971 at University Of Richmond in Richmond, VA. The show was held at the university's Keller Hall Gymnasium. The Bruce Springsteen Band was the headliner and Tumbleweed and Black Forrest Rhodes were the undercards. The Bruce Springsteen Band's trumpet player Harvey Cherlin and backup singers Barbara Dinkins and Delores Holmes were not present. The band comprised only of its five core members: Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt, Garry Tallent, David Sancious, and Vini Lopez.
An excellent quality soundboard recording of The Bruce Springsteen Band set from this show is in the possession of a private collector. It consists of 12 songs, clocks at about 127 minutes, and is certainly the complete set. Ten songs from the recording have been circulating among collectors since the early eighties, but in inferior quality and incorrectly dated. The remaining two songs remain in the private collector's hands.
Thanks Audio2575 (from Rare Springsteen) for the lyrics help. Most of the above info about the 23 Oct 1971 show is taken from Brucebase.
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List of available versions of CHEROKEE QUEEN on this website:
CHEROKEE QUEEN [17 Jul 1970 sound-check version]