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