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Comanchero

from Mind Wanderer by Paul Lee Kupfer

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This is a heavy dark song that accompanies the previous track on the album, “The War”, but it stands alone also. It tells tells the tale of Cynthia Ann Parker a missionary woman who was captured by the violent Comanches and then recaptured by the whites on the Llano Estacado flatlands around Lubbock Texas in the civil war era. It also has the vibe of a 70s Neil Young song and tells the story from the outside perspective of Cynthia Ann who eventually considered herself more Native American than white.

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She found her way out on the open road.
a stolen horse on a homemade saddle.
The sun don’t shine on the trail she road,
one hundred miles form a losing battle.
Prisoner of the Comanchero,
have no hope that death won’t follow.

She’s caught up in the white man’s war,
but she won’t be a slave anymore.

The missionary killers that own our home
they won’t take peace and they don’t take sorrow.
She’s been gone too long in the rain and snow,
the towns are burning it’s the smoke she follows.
From the Colorado river to the Ohio,
she rides the night and hides tomorrow.

She’s caught up in the white man’s war,
but she won’t be a slave anymore.

Is there healing power in the crops we sew,
if the land is taken and the seeds are borrowed.
Is a bridge on the river gonna take her home,
when the water ain’t clean in the Llano Estacado.
When the water ain’t clean in the Llano Estacado.

Caught up in the white man’s war,
but she won’t be a slave anymore.

She’s caught up in the white man’s war,
but she won’t be a slave anymore.

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from Mind Wanderer, released March 1, 2020

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