I’ll tell you the Story of John Cherokee        Alabama John Cherokee!
An Indian man from Merimashee.                  Alabama John Cherokee!
                        way, hey, yah – oogh!               Alabama John Cherokee!
                        way, hey, yah – oogh!               Alabama John Cherokee!

They made him a slave down in Alabam’     Alabama John Cherokee!
He’d  run  away  every  time  he  can.          Alabama John Cherokee!

They  put  him  aboard  a  Yankee  ship ….
Again  he  gav’  the  boss the slip ….

They  catched  him  again  and  chained  him  tight ….
And  put  him  in  the  hold  without  any  light ….

Nothin’  to  drink  and  nothin’  to  eat ….
Until  he  dropped  dead  at  the  Boss’s  feet ….

So  they  buried  him  by  the  old  gate  post ….
The  very  same  day  you  could  see  his  ghost ….