Seven Little Indians
John Hiatt

There were seven little Indians
Living in a brick house on
Central Avenue
Gathered 'round their daddy
Tellin' stories in the living room
From a slightly unrealistic point of view
Momma was off yonder in the kitchen somewhere
Boiling up some hot water for them to all get up to their necks in
The seven little Indians new
If the rest of the tribe ever scrutinized their household
Somehow it would not pass inspection
The big chief railed on
And spun his tales of brave conquest
About the moving of his little band
Up to Alaska
Where the caribou run free
See he had been there putting in telephone lines
For the army during World War II
Even brought back a picture of a frozen mastodon
For the little Indians to see
And some mukluks and some sealskin gloves
And a coat with beads around the collar
His wife kept them in the mothballs
Underneath the Hudson Bays
And every once and a while he'd get all wound up
With one of his stories, he'd put them all on
And dance around in that blue TV light
Like it was some campfire blazing away
Well he stamped and he hollered
But he could not stay warm in that living room
And even the seven little Indians could feel the chill
And although everything always worked
Out for the better in all of his stories
In that old brick house it always felt like
Something was movin' in for the kill
Blazing like a trail
Shot through the eyes of the seven little Indians
Blazing like the sheets of light dancing up in the sky
Up above Anchorage
Blazing like a star shot down to the ground
Back home again in Indiana
Now it finally got so quiet you could hear a pin drop
They started dropping like flies
The oldest little Indian got sick and vanished
The big chief went two years later
The mother raised the six little Indians up
The best she could
To be housewives, musicians, and insurance salesmen
But they all shared this common denominator
You see, all the characters in the big chief's stories
Were named after the seven little Indians
And like I said, in his stories everything
Always worked out for the better
And now as I'm telling this stuff to my own kids
Dancing around in that blue TV light
Well, I wish I had those mukluks, those sealskin gloves
And that coat with beads around the collar


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  (No More) Dancing In The Street   Across the Borderline   Adios To California   After All This Time   Ain't Ever Goin' Back   Ain't Ever Goin' Back   All The Lilacs In Ohio   Almost Fed Up With The Blues   Alone In The Dark   Angel   Angel Eyes   Angel Eyes (Live)   Angel Eyes [Live]   As Good As She Could Be   Baby?s Gonna Kick   Back Of My Mind   Back On The Corner   Back To Normal   Back To The War   Before I Go   Big Love   Bite Marks   Blue Telescope   Blues Can't Even Find Me   Blues Can't Even Find Me   Book Lovers   Bring Back Your Love To Me   Buffalo River Home   Buffalo River Home (LP Version)   Carry You Back Home   Cherry Red   Child Of The Wild Blue Yonder   Circle Back   Cold River   Come Back Home   Come Home To You   Cop Party   Copy Party   Cross My Fingers   Crossing Muddy Waters   Cry Love   Dancing In The Street   Death By Misadventure   Detroit Made   Distance   Do You Want My Job   Doll Hospital   Don't Bug Me When I'm Working   Don't Know Much About Love   Don't Look Any Further   Don't Think About Her When You're Trying To Drive   Don't Bug Me When I'm Working   Don't Know Much About Love   Don't Think About Her When You're Trying...   Down Around My Place   Down Around My Place   Down Home   Down In Front   Drive South   Drive South (LP Version)   Dust Down A Country Road   Ethylene   Everybody Went Low   Face Of God   Face The Nation   Falling Up   Far As We Go   Farther Stars   Feelin' Again   Feelin' Again   Feels Like Rain   Feels Like Rain (LP Version)   Find You At Last   Fireball Roberts   Fly Back Home   Fool Who Knows   Forever Yours   Friend Of Mine   Full Moon   Georgia Rae   Getting Excited   Girl On A String   Give It Up   Go Down Swingin'   God's Golden Eye   God's Golden Eyes   God's Golden Eye   Gone   Good As She Could Be   Good Girl, Bad World   Graduated   Hand of Kindness   Hangin' Around Here   Hangin' Around The Observatory   Hangin' Round Here   Hangin' Around Here   Hangin' Around The Observatory   Haulin'   Have A Little Faith In Me   Here To Stay   Hold On for Your Love   Homeland   How Bad's The Coffee   How Bad's The Coffee   Howlin' Down The Cumberland   Howlin' Down The Cumberland   Hurt My Baby   I Can't Wait   I Can't Wait   I Could Use An Angel   I Don't Even Try   I Don't Even Try   I Got A Gun   I Just Don't Know What To Say   I Just Don't Know What To Say   I Killed An Ant   I Killed An Ant With My Guitar   I Know A Place   I Know How To Lose You   I Look For Love   I Love That Girl   I Spy   I Spy (For the F.B.I.)   I Spy (For The Fbi)   I Want Your Love Inside Of Me   I'll Never Get Over You   I'm A Real Man   I'm Tired Of Your Stuff   I'll Never Get Over You   I'm A Real Man   Icy Blue Heart   Inside Job   Instant Karma   Is Anybody There?   It All Comes Back Someday   It All Comes Back Someday   It Hasn't Happened Yet   It Hasn't Happened Yet   It'll Come To You   It's All Right With Me   It's Alright With Me   It'll Come To You   It's All Right With Me   Just to Satisfy You   Learning How To Love You   Let It Ride   Let It Slip Away   Let's Give This Love a Try   Let's Give This Love A Try   Lift Up Every Stone   Like a Freight Train   Lincoln Town   Lipstick Sunset   Listening To Old Voices   Little Blue Song For You   Little Head   Living A Little, Laughing A Little   Living Just A Little, Laughing Just A Little   Long Night   Long Time Comin   Long Time Comin'   Love In Flames   Love Like Blood   Love You Again   Love's Not Where We Thought We Left It   Love's Not Where We Thought We Left It   Lovers Will   Loving A Hurricane   Loving a Hurricane [*]   Madonna Road   Marianne   Marlene   Master Of Disaster   Maybe Baby, Say You Do   Memphis in the Meantime   Mile High   Missing Pieces   Motorboat To Heaven   Movin' On   Mr. Stanley   My Baby   My Baby Blue   My Business   My Dog And Me   My Edge Of The Razor   My Old Friend   My Sweet Girl   Nagging Dark   Native Son   New Numbers   No Wicked Grin   Nobody Knows His Name   Nothin? I Love   Nothinu2019 I Love   Number One Honest Game   Ocean   Old Days   Old Habits   Old Habits Are Hard to Break   Old Habits Are Hard to Break   Old People   Old School   On With You   One Kiss   One More Time   One Of Them Damn Days   Only The Song Survives   Our Time   Overcoats   Overnight Story   Paper Thin   Paper Thin (LP Version)   Perfectly Good Guitar   Permanent Hurt   Pink Bedroom   Pirate Radio   Radio Girl   Real Fine Love   Ride Along   Ride My Pony   Riding With The King   River Knows Your Name   Rock Back Billy   Rock of Your Love   Rose   Runaway   Sail Away   Same Old Man   Say It With Flowers   Sharon's Got A Drug Store   Sharon's Got A Drugstore   Sharon's Got A Drug Store   She Loves The Jerk   She Runs Hot   She Said The Same Things To Me   Shredding The Document   Shredding the Document   Slow Turning   Slug Line   Smiling In The Rain   Solar Sex Panel   Some Fun Now   Something Broken   Something Happens   Something Wild   Sometime Other Than Now   Spy Boy   Stolen Moments   Stood Up   Straight Outta Time   String Pull Job   Sure As I'm Sittin' Here   Sure As I'm Sitting Here   Sure As I'm Sitting Here   Sure Pinocchio   Take Another Look   Take It Back   Take It Down   Take Off Your Uniform   Tennessee Plates   Tennessee Plates (LP Version)   Terms Of My Surender   Terms Of My Surrender   Thank You Girl   The Action   The Crush   The Lady Of The Night   The Last Time   The Love That Harms   The Most Unoriginal Sin   The Nagging Dark   The Negroes Were Dancing   The Negroes Where Dancing   The Night That Kenny Died   The Open Road   The Rest Of The Dream   The River Knows Your Name   The Tiki Bar Is Open   The Trouble With Blood   The Usual   The Walking Dead   The Way We Make A Broken Heart   The Wreck of the Barbie Ferrari   Thing Called Love   Thirty Years Of Tears   This Secret Life   Through Your Hands   Thunderbird   Til I Get My Lovin' Back   Tip Of My Tongue   Trudy & Dave   Trudy And Dave   Two Hearts   Uncommon Connection   Walk On   Warming Up To The Ice Age   Washable Ink   What Do We Do Now   What Do We Do Now?   What Kind of Man   What Love Can Do   When My Love Crosses Over   When New York Had Her Heart Broke   When New York Had Her Heart Broke [Instrumental]   When We Ran   When You Hold Me Tight   Where Nobody Knows My Name   Whistles In My Ears   Wild Eyed Gypsies   Wild Eyed Gypsy   Wild-Eyed Gypsies   Wind Don?t Have To Hurry   Window on the World   Wintertime Blues   Woman Sawed In Half   Wonder of Love   Wood Chipper   Wrote It Down & Burned It   Wrote It Down And Burned It   You Caught Me Laughin'   You May Already Be a Winner   You Must Go   You Used To Kiss The Girls   You're My Love Interest   Your Dad Did   Your Love Is My Rest   Zero House

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