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[Verse 1: Lee Mellor]
Anna Muskagee planned to go
East to Ontario
Cos those bread basket bars were going stale
Dialled her cousin in Toronto
Said "Hey Marie, it's me I wanna
Come see ya," twisting the phone cord 'round her fingernail
And when her cousin did concur
She ran upstairs, threw all of her
Best clothes into one of those little beaded backpacks
And bounding out the patio door
Said "daddy, I'll be back in time for
Dinner," he didn't look up and she didn't look back
[Chorus]
In Nowhere, Manitoba
She runs out to see the world
While a father barely sober
Sees the last of his little girl
[Verse 2: Lee Mellor]
Now there's a short-band radio station
Broadcasts 'cross the reservation
Where the ghosts of the buffalo still roam
And having received her father's call
Across the airwaves old Tom drawls
"Anna Muskagee, will you phone or go home"
But his static crackled words
Fizzle in the night unheard
Choked beneath the chirruping of cricket legs
And as her mother scrapes her mash
Potatoes in the kitchen trash
Anna's already halfway to Winnipeg
[Chorus]
In Nowhere, Manitoba
She waits by the highway side
For a trucker to pull over
And offer her a ride
[Verse 3: Lee Mellor]
Now no one's heard from Anna in weeks
Police called down from Catfish Creek
Search for the better part of a Saturday
But by Monday night the chief calls it quits
Says "let's be honest boys it's
Just another goddamn Indian runaway"
Now the wind creaks in the highway signs
Cyclones in the combines
At the end of September
Tears "Missing" signs from telephone poles
Xerox sucks the very soul
From a face no white man could remember
[Chorus]
In Nowhere, Manitoba
She lies in a cold cornfield
'Till the harvests of October
When she will be revealed
In Nowhere, Manitoba...
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Lee Mellor

Lee Mellor

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