Johnny Half-Breed

Lyrics

I'll tell you of a man He was a half-breed too He knew the woods and roamed them He was an outcast true The people they all run him off He never came around And when it came to hiding He sure could not be found They called him Johnny Half-Breed And they made it mighty clear They called him Johnny Half-Breed Half-breed's ain't welcome here Mongrels ain't invited And no curs do we allow So listen Johnny Half-Breed Get out and get out now The city that we speak of Was named for Galilee Within a forest ocean A mighty sea of trees All around in the forest Half-breed Johnny rambled round He knew all about the eagle And where the honey could be found Not a white man nor an Indian No parents and no land The trees they were his teachers And the animals his clan He could converse with the otter And he held forth with the bear They said he talked to fishes And to birds when they were there They called him Johnny Half-Breed And they made it mighty clear They called him Johnny Half-Breed Half-breed's ain't welcome here Mongrels ain't invited And no curs do we allow So listen Johnny Half-Breed Get out and get out now Now in the town we speak of The New Mayor had a child A girl of six or seven And not uncommon wild Often she would wander And then return to home Til once a flyin squirrel Tempted her to roam She followed half a mile or more Until she lost the track Panic hit her suddenly She knew of no way back The forest turned and twisted All about her everyway And all her steps were wrong ones When she got lost that day They called him Johnny Half-Breed And they made it mighty clear They called him Johnny Half-Breed Half-breed's ain't welcome here Mongrels ain't invited And no curs do we allow So listen Johnny Half-Breed Get out and get out now When she turned up missin A mighty search was called They feared that she was murdered And worried she was mauled They tramped the woods for miles around And helicopters flew And when all that was finished Nothings all they knew Someone mentioned Johnny And someone was laughed down Someone spoke of wood craft And some said that forest clown Some said, "Why he is just a bum A dirty lost half-breed" But Johnny was their one hope And they sent for him with speed They called him Johnny Half-Breed And they made it mighty clear They called him Johnny Half-Breed Half-breed's ain't welcome here Mongrels ain't invited And no curs do we allow So listen Johnny Half-Breed Get out and get out now Johnny started searchin Until he tracked the child Carried her in his half-breed arms Out of the forest wild He was hero for a day They asked him to remain They said they'd learned their lesson That all people are the same Johnny said, "You take your handshakes Your sidewalks and your town Ask for me by the whippoorwill He'll say where I'll be found I prefer to talk with wildcats And to hear the wild goose moan I'm headed back to wilderness The forest is my home"