Susanna Little-Grant-Lee Phillips

[ti:Susanna little] [ar:Grant-Lee Phillips] [al:Virginia Creeper] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.75]Susanna Little - Grant-Lee Phillips [00:02.60]Written by：Grant Lee Phillips [00:03.96] [00:19.82]Sussana little [00:22.05]Sussana little [00:23.50] [00:24.14]Gone 'fore I ever arrived [00:27.05] [00:28.33]Questions that stream through my own creek blood [00:32.47]The odyssey of your life [00:35.17] [00:38.55]A motherless child [00:40.28]You were torn from your home [00:42.41]By decree of the county affairs [00:45.76] [00:46.49]Good Christians they gave you a lily white dress [00:50.82]And shorn back that Indian hair [00:53.08] [00:54.55]Told ya study your Bible be silent and still [00:58.61] [00:59.15]And take to the ways of the whites [01:02.25] [01:03.59]Nothin' they offered could break down your will [01:07.26]For you ran for the gates one night [01:10.63] [01:13.69]Sussana little [01:15.80]Sussana little [01:17.25] [01:17.80]Gone 'fore I ever arrived [01:20.98] [01:21.99]Questions that stream through my own creek blood [01:26.09]Stories that keep you alive [01:28.77] [01:31.97]Your daddy Joe little had woes of his own [01:36.46]Drink was much stronger than greed [01:40.37]But some in the city felt native red hands [01:44.43]Were no place to let rest a deed [01:47.50] [01:48.23]Oklahoma was rich with the stench of black oil [01:52.66]And the men who came there to drill [01:55.65] [01:56.53]In the sun baked clay of Indian lands [02:00.22] [02:00.84]There in the desolate fields [02:04.13] [02:06.96]Sussana little [02:09.08]Sussana little [02:10.54] [02:11.10]Gone 'fore I ever arrived [02:14.26] [02:15.06]Questions that stream through my own creek blood [02:19.39]Songs that'a keep you alive [02:22.83] [02:33.92]Mysterious crimes oh they swept through the county [02:37.60] [02:38.23]Waving the finger of blame [02:42.03]Eyes turned to Joe little [02:44.22]A couple too many acres of land to his name [02:49.28] [02:49.84]No one would have heard the lone shot in the night [02:54.23]They never posted his bail [02:57.21] [02:58.35]Big Joey little never walked out [03:02.02]Of Sheriff Stanton's jail [03:04.67] [03:08.41]Sussana little [03:10.41]Sussana little [03:12.49]Gone 'fore I ever arrived [03:15.65] [03:16.52]Questions that stream through my own creek blood [03:20.69]The odyssey of your life [03:23.81] [03:26.46]For all of the lives you had lived this far [03:30.77]No part of you could have known [03:33.88] [03:34.80]The evil hearts of the men who would fetch ya [03:38.70]One night by the side of the road [03:41.42] [03:42.50]The moon it grew dark and the frost would form [03:46.72]Before you finally were found [03:50.19] [03:50.81]Chained to a log in a torn white dress [03:54.93]Shakin' wild eyed on the ground [03:58.05] [04:01.22]Sussana little [04:03.26]Sussana little [04:05.34]Gone 'fore I ever arrived [04:08.61] [04:09.45]Questions that stream through my own creek blood [04:13.61]Such were the trials of your life [04:16.96] [04:19.90]Yet in the years to come you took a man [04:23.14] [04:23.76]Raised five of your own [04:26.98] [04:27.90]And for a spell it was as almost as though [04:31.76]The light of justice had shown [04:34.30] [04:35.41]The hand that had written this part but for you [04:39.76]And made it all plenty hard [04:42.47] [04:43.99]Gave you a gusher a well spring of oil [04:47.87]There in your own back yard [04:51.40] [04:53.77]So pile them kids in the plush back seat [04:58.05]Ridin' shotgun in the Packard to town [05:02.05]With your man Tom Fisher one hand on the wheel [05:06.23]The other on your knee now [05:09.11] [05:12.54]Sussana little [05:14.55]Sussana little [05:16.05] [05:16.58]Gone 'fore I ever arrived [05:19.65] [05:20.40]Questions that stream through my own creek blood [05:24.76]The odyssey of your life [05:28.15] [05:30.96]Sussana little [05:33.18] [05:35.02]Sussana little [05:37.20] [05:39.16]Sussana little [05:41.37] [05:43.00]Sussana little [05:45.35] [05:47.19]Sussana little [05:50.02] [05:51.19]Sussana little