Steemit OpenMic Week 82 - BABY CROW - The Ballad of Olive Oatman
This is my entry for the steemit open mic week 82.
Thanks to all the organizers!
LYRICS
You came home with a blue tattoo
We thought blankets and a horse could save you
If its the only thing that makes you feel better.
It's not your place
this ain't your place
when the boys come home you know you'll fell better
take me to apache
take me home to the Mohave
Your blue tattoo was painted in blood
I remember you through the draughts and the flood
All you want is them to return
this ain't your place
it's not your place
but you will learn.
When the boys come home you know you'll feel better x 3
take me to apache
take me home to the Mohave
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wow very very very good
Thank you so much for the kind words! I wrote this song with a good friend of mine. The lyrics are a clear reference to a woman called Olive Oatman, She was the first recorded white woman to live with native Americans. Her families story and her story independently is just fascinating! I think as a child her family of five was traveling from salt lake city through America and decided to split off and go a separate way to the other travelers. Unfortunately, Olive and her family were attacked and most of them were murdered apart from her and her sister. The two girls were taken into the tribes and made to work. later they were sold to another tribe for some blankets. Here they assimilated Olive into the tribe and her sister died through a brutal winter. There are pictures of Olive Oatman on google that show her face tattoo which is normal for the women of the Mohave. The story doesn't end there and she, in fact, had two sons with a tribesman. Eventually, some pilgrims heard of white women being kept by a tribe and tried to "save" her from the tribe. Olive, in fact, did eventually leave the tribe only to travel across the Americas teaching the settlers the truth about the natives and opening peoples eyes to their ways. She had only positive things to say about her time with the Mohave, she said she had been taken into the tribe and treated like one of their own. Thats just an over view but the entire story absolutely fascinates me!
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hey thanks for the support guys! ill have a look into the voting for witness and steemconnect stuff. Still so new here its taking a while to understand how it all works!
Super-cool song, dude... Nice, man!
Thanks so much dude!
you got a new fan..¡¡
Thanks so much!
Great song , i really like it 👍
Thank you for your support it means alot!
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Hi @lucypher and thanks for the tips! Should I put another post on my blog with a youtube embedded video of this song to be entered into this weeks draw? Thank you
Just embed a YouTube video in this same post. It's a bit late now because I already posted the weekly list of entries so, you link will be in the cue but not a video. DTube does not have the capability to embed videos and that is why we ask you to also embed a YouTube video if you use DTube, so we can see your video in the weekly post of entries. Just do it the next time you enter and you may want to read all the rules next time too. Thanks for playing and look forward to your next entry.
Okay great thanks for the detailed reply. Ill read the rules again and do my best to follow them all correctly! sorry about that! Fantastic, cant wait to enter next week!
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Thanks man, your stuff is great too!