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Seven Little Indians
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John Hiatt
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There were seven little Indians
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Living in a brick house on
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Central Avenue
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Gathered 'round their daddy
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Tellin' stories in the living room
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From a slightly unrealistic point of view
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Momma was off yonder in the kitchen somewhere
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Boiling up some hot water for them to all get up to their necks in
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The seven little Indians new
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If the rest of the tribe ever scrutinized their household
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Somehow it would not pass inspection
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The big chief railed on
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And spun his tales of brave conquest
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About the moving of his little band
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Up to Alaska
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Where the caribou run free
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See he had been there putting in telephone lines
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For the army during World War II
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Even brought back a picture of a frozen mastodon
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For the little Indians to see
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And some mukluks and some sealskin gloves
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And a coat with beads around the collar
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His wife kept them in the mothballs
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Underneath the Hudson Bays
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And every once and a while he'd get all wound up
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With one of his stories, he'd put them all on
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And dance around in that blue TV light
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Like it was some campfire blazing away
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Well he stamped and he hollered
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But he could not stay warm in that living room
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And even the seven little Indians could feel the chill
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And although everything always worked
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Out for the better in all of his stories
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In that old brick house it always felt like
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Something was movin' in for the kill
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Blazing like a trail
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Shot through the eyes of the seven little Indians
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Blazing like the sheets of light dancing up in the sky
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Up above Anchorage
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Blazing like a star shot down to the ground
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Back home again in Indiana
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Now it finally got so quiet you could hear a pin drop
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They started dropping like flies
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The oldest little Indian got sick and vanished
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The big chief went two years later
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The mother raised the six little Indians up
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The best she could
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To be housewives, musicians, and insurance salesmen
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But they all shared this common denominator
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You see, all the characters in the big chief's stories
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Were named after the seven little Indians
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And like I said, in his stories everything
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Always worked out for the better
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And now as I'm telling this stuff to my own kids
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Dancing around in that blue TV light
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Well, I wish I had those mukluks, those sealskin gloves
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And that coat with beads around the collar
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