← more from
Paradise of Bachelors
We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

I Used to Know an Assiniboine Girl

from Crazy Horse Never Died by Roxy Gordon

supported by
Frank Schmidtsdorff
Frank Schmidtsdorff thumbnail
lokalradio
lokalradio thumbnail
streetsahead
streetsahead thumbnail
/

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    + Deluxe LP edition features 140g virgin vinyl; a gatefold jacket with restored, new, and alternate art and photos; and a 48pp. chapbook (PoB-069) with lyrics, essays, photographs, and First Coyote Boy’s extraordinary drawings for each song. (The chapbook is included in the LP edition only and also available for purchase separately.)

    Includes unlimited streaming of Crazy Horse Never Died via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $27 USD or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    + Deluxe CD edition features a gatefold jacket with restored, new, and alternate art and photos, and insert (CD edition does not include the chapbook).

    Includes unlimited streaming of Crazy Horse Never Died via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $14 USD or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    + Bundle the CD and chapbook for a discounted price.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Crazy Horse Never Died via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $20 USD or more 

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    + Bundle the LP (with chapbook) and CD for a discounted price.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Crazy Horse Never Died via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $37 USD or more 

     

  • Book/Magazine

    + 48pp. chapbook with lyrics, essays, photographs, and First Coyote Boy’s extraordinary drawings for each song. (The chapbook is included in the LP edition only and also available for purchase separately.)
    ships out within 5 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $9 USD or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 USD  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

lyrics

I used to know an Indian girl up north
on the northern plains.
I'm sorry that I don't know her anymore.

She'd just come home from boarding school,
just turned nineteen,
so all she wanted then most was more.

So they men that she stayed with were not
the gentlest kind.
I saw her walk the roads with swollen eyes.
She'd come to my door in the darker hours of night,
asking drunk for help while she cried.

Sometimes she spoke to me, she'd ask without words;
she would offer herself for my caress
And her hair it was black shiney, her skin
was brown and soft.
I ached for the fullness of her breasts.

But I had another woman and I never said a word.
I kept all I wanted to myself.
So she came to spit at me, came to call
my name with fire,
offered actually to fight me with her fists.

And, my God, I loved her then; I looked
behind her brown eyes,
I saw a nation that's gone born again.
I saw lean and screaming riders race for buffalo.
I saw a hundred-thousand free and haughty men.

Now that I don't live on the plains anymore,
I haven't seen her, but I heard that she tried
to kill herself one morning in the house where she stays
with a drinker from some southwestern tribe.

And, God I loved her then, I looked behind her brown eyes,
I saw a nation that's gone born again.
And I saw a woman, who always wanted more.
And I wish to God she'd found that kind of man.

credits

from Crazy Horse Never Died, released May 12, 2023

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Roxy Gordon image

Roxy Gordon Dallas, Texas

Roxy Gordon (First Coyote Boy, or Tu Gah Juk Juk Ka Na Hok Sheena) (1945–2000) was a Choctaw, Assiniboine, and Texan poet, journalist, artist, activist, and musician.

contact / help

Contact Roxy Gordon

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Roxy Gordon, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring Riley Pinkerton (aka The Rat Queen) from the theatrical NYC rockers, Castle Rat.
listen now