Big Pow Pow 1911

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 28 Mar 2008
2008

While the tomtoms
they were sounding
there 'round the campfire bright,
one moonlight night, in flight
two lovers stole thro 'the forest glade.
Big Chief Scar Brow
made Big Pow Pow,
soon as 'twas known they'd flown,
but with his own alone,
the young brave said to his dusky maid:

Pow Wow, they're having a Pow Wow,
Hark! how they're raising a big row;
They've lost the trail somehow,
Big Chief can't follow us now.
I'll hunt and build you a teepee,
then we'll housekeepee,
and someday maybe,
Indian Baby, make big Pow Wow.

Pow Wow, they're having a Pow Wow,
Hark! how they're raising a big row;
They've lost the trail somehow,
Big Chief can't follow us now.
I'll hunt and build you a teepee,
then we'll housekeepee,
and someday maybe,
Indian Baby, make big Pow Wow.

'Cross the border came this order:
'Capture them both alive,
till I arrive and strive
to show young brave
what he's dared to do!'
But an arrow,
swift and narrow,
sank in the Big Chief's heart,
with poisoned dart he lay
as the young brave rode
with his bride away.

Pow Wow, they're having a Pow Wow,
Hark! how they're raising a big row;
They've lost the trail somehow,
Big Chief can't follow us now.
I'll hunt and build you a teepee,
then we'll housekeepee,
and someday maybe,
Indian Baby, make big Pow Wow.

Pow Wow, they're having a Pow Wow,
Hark! how they're raising a big row;
They've lost the trail somehow,
Big Chief can't follow us now.
I'll hunt and build you a teepee,
then we'll housekeepee,
and someday maybe,
Indian Baby, make big Pow Wow.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Big Pow Pow 1911
Music by Florence M.Pearce
Lyrics by Edgar Selden
© 1911 by Maurice Shapiro - New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 28 March 2008 at 15.33
in association with Veda Meyer-Costens
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