Rex Allen
Intro = Tom Tom Beats x 4 bars
When I Was Just A Little Boy I've Liked To Roam The Hills
I'd Shout And Yell And Holler Like Them I Wore Moccasins On My Feet
And I'd Make Believe I Was Under A Teepee Every Time I Went To Sleep
My Hair Was Jet Black And I Was Twenty One
But The Paleface Maidens Didn't Thrill Me None
Around My Cochise County Home Town
One Day I Went To The Reservation And There By A Shallow Creek
Was A Beautiful Indian A'fetchin' Water And I Just Had To Speak
She Smiled At Me Then Quickly Left But The Next Day She Re-turned
And It Wasn't Very Long Till I Told Her How The Love In My Heart Burned
I Told My Daddy I'd Found A Girl Who Meant The World To Me
And To-morrow I'd Ask The Indian Chief For The Hand Of Nova Lee
Dad's Trembling Lips Spoke Softly As He Told Me Of My Life
It Was Then He Said I Could Never Take This Maiden For My Wife
Next verse is spoken with the chords in the back round
Son The White Man And Indian Were Fighting When You Were Born
And A Brave Called Yellow Sun Scalped My Little Boy
So I Stole You To Get Even For What He'd Done
Though You're A Full Blooded Indian Son
I Love You As Much As My Own Little Feller That's Dead
And Son Nova Lee Is Your Sister And That's Why I've Always Said