Honouring Benjamin Chee Chee (1944 - 1977)

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© lostguide1

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Benjamin's Dream; Lyrics & Music by Don Charbonneau

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Dedicated to the memory of Benjamin Chee Chee and these other wonderful native artists who have left us a part of their world. Some have caught their train (as we must all catch ours one day) some are still here sharing a part of their world with us and I thank these artists: Norval Morrisseau, Carl Beam, Sky Polson and Leonard Beam... /more below/-

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I got these colours in my head

And put them down for you to see

From someplace I used to know

Someplace in my dreams someplace in my dreams

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I'm waiting for my train to take me out of here

Take me to a place a place where I belong

I'm waiting for my train to take me out of here

Take me to a place a place where I belong
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I'm sitting on these hotel steps

Waiting for you to buy another piece of my world

For just enough to get me by

This is your world now and for me there's no escape

Unless I hold out my hand with these pictures for sale

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[Chorus]

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This world sure has changed I don't know it any more

I'm lost in a land I once knew so very well

I paint these pictures with my hand

So you will understand just where it is I'm going to

I paint these pictures with my hand

So you will understand just where it is I'm going to

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[Chorus]
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I got these colours in my head

And put them down for you to see

From some place I used to know

Someplace in my dreams someplace in my dreams-

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... Dedicated to the memory of native artist Benjamin Chee Chee. I wrote this song a couple of years ago after hearing this story told to me by a gentleman from Ottawa... "a friend of mine bought many of Benjamin Chee Chee's sketches in Ottawa. He used to go for a drink on Friday after work at a local hotel... on several occasions the artist would be there selling some of his work..."

Don Charbonneau-

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>>> Reference posting: Great Anishinaabe/Woodland Artists (Part III).-

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