We were beaten adn defeated A persecuted nation and I knew That fighting would be senseless And their promises wouldn't be true In misery and deep despair, I told it to my race We parked our thins and set Out soon and left our fireplace
For our trail of tears The distance was much Longer than anybody thought We all suffered in silence Like our fathers thought
We had nothing to eat and Nothing to drink it was colder every night The world lay muted as a Stone whe nthe first child died Our trail of tears
