Half-Breed
by Cher

Album: Half-Breed (1973)
Charted: 1
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  • My father married a pure Cherokee
    My mother's people were ashamed of me
    The Indians said I was white by law
    The White Man always called me "Indian Squaw"

    Half-breed, that's all I ever heard
    Half-breed, how I learned to hate the word
    Half-breed, she's no good they warned
    Both sides were against me since the day I was born

    We never settled, went from town to town
    When you're not welcome you don't hang around
    The other children always laughed at me
    "Give her a feather, she's a Cherokee"

    Half-breed, that's all I ever heard
    Half-breed, how I learned to hate the word
    Half-breed, she's no good they warned
    Both sides were against me since the day I was born

    We weren't accepted and I felt ashamed
    Nineteen I left them, tell me who's to blame
    My life since then has been from man to man
    But I can't run away from what I am

    Half-breed, that's all I ever heard
    Half-breed, how I learned to hate the word
    Half-breed, she's no good they warned
    Both sides were against me since the day I was born

    Half-breed, that's all I ever heard
    Half-breed, how I learned to hate the word
    Half-breed, she's no good they warned
    Both sides were against me since the day I was born Writer/s: Al Capps, Mary Dean
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Janice from TnIn cases of people of other races procreating with a Cherokee, the Cherokees, like many other American Indian tribes, consider the resulting child to be of whatever race the mother is. If the mother is white and the father Cherokee, then the child is white. If the mother is Cherokee and the father white, then the child is Cherokee. Meaning that the first verse of this song is inaccurate.
  • AnonymousWhy isn't Marvin Rainwater given any credit for doing this song in 1959?
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