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Cher singing her classic hit Half Breed. Cher in an Indian headdress atop a horse.
If you are a true Cher fan, don't miss this opportunity! Music video by Cher performing "Half-Breed". ©1973 MCA Records. Follow the Official CHER Fan Club on: YouTube →...
"Half-Breed" is a popular song recorded by Cher in 1973. Cher's version, recorded with instrumental backing by L.A. sessions musicians from the Wrecking Crew, [1] was recorded on May 21, 1973 at Larrabee Sound in Los Angeles. Lyrically, the song describes the life of a girl who faces societal rejection due to having a White father and Cherokee ...
####LYRICS####My Father Married A Pure Cherokee My Mothers People Were Ashamed Of MeThe Indians Said That I Was White By Law The White Man Always Called Me "...
"Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)" is a song written by John D. Loudermilk. [2] It was first recorded by Marvin Rainwater in 1959 and released on MGM as "The Pale Faced Indian", but that release went unnoticed.
Half-Breed is the title song from Cher’s tenth album. The song is about a woman of half Caucasian/half Cherokee descent and how people chastised her because of her race.
My father married a pure Cherokee. My mother's people were ashamed of me. The Indians said I was white by law. The white man always called me. "Indian Squaw". [Chorus] Half-breed, that's all I ever heard. Half-breed, how I learned to hate the word. Half-breed, she's no good they warned.
The song addresses the discrimination faced by half-breeds, a term used in North America to describe people of mixed race or ethnicity. It narrates the struggles of a woman of half-Cherokee and half-white descent.
The song is about the plight of the Cherokee Indians, who in 1838 were displaced from their home in Georgia to a reservation in Oklahoma. Raiders frontman Mark Lindsay, whose ancestry was part Native American, thought this would be a good song to record.
On The Sonny & Cher Show, Cher sang “Half-Breed” in a full headdress and a sexy-Indian costume, while sitting atop a horse, a pretty clear sign that this wasn’t exactly a sincere song. She...