This is a song about Archie Belany (Grey Owl) and his relationship with the Temagami Native and the European fur trade.
Ryan Primrose - Lyrics
Ryan Primrose - Guitar
Mark Bradford - Guitar
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A White Voice From a Red World
When Archie Belany frolicked feathered in woods
Natives of Temagami did what they could – to
Make this white man’s dreams come true.
The families also threw in truth to his ruse
But when the owl flew out from the night
The voles of the white world scurried in flight
From the looming red skinned views
To try and avoid his past date news –
Something they could have used.
(Chorus)
Conservation in their ways –deplete.
Profit in their minds – replete.
The white soul – incomplete.
The white intention – bleak.
Could that grey man change the minds
Of the fur-trade views blind.
Why did people still ignore the natives
When possibly their knowledge could save us;
Not the way ours berates us.
But we know the end – we see it again.
(Chorus)
Where in life do they stand
When all actions deserve reprimand?
Their ways all based on profit.
But this is not a world retrofit.
(Chorus)
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