Massacre at Mackinaw!

Oh people, come gather round
I'm gonna tell you how it all went down
Oh people, go tell your friends
That Alexander Henry is alive again

Take a walk with me, 1763
When danger filled the air with fear
Rumours from Fond du Lac about Chief Pontiac
And plans to make the British disappear

I had come down from the Sault
To the Fort at Mackinaw
It was the second day of June
As the natives they played lacrosse

Massacre at Mackinaw
Massacre at Mackinaw
Massacre at Mackinaw

Many more than one warned Major Etherington
That something more was on than sport
He brushed aside the words and soon everyone heard
The ball come flying deep into the fort

I was sitting in a room
Writing letters to my friends
When I looked out of the window
All I saw were dead Englishmen

Massacre at Mackinaw
Massacre at Mackinaw
Massacre at Mackinaw

Oh people, what can I say
Things went south in the north that day
Oh people, knock on some wood
'Cause right now things aren't lookin' so good

It was one year before, Wawatum, a Chippewa
Embraced me as his brother and a son
For he had dreamed a dream that when a man like me was seen
That he must treat that man as if his own

The day before the great attack
He tried to take me back to the Sault
Not understanding I ignored
His words of warning and the next thing I knew

Massacre at Mackinaw
Massacre at Mackinaw
Massacre at Mackinaw

I heard Jemet scream between a warrior's knees
And I watched that fighter shear off his reward
Another reached into a man while cupping bloody hands
Then drank a toast to death forevermore

I was hidden by a slave
But soon enough I was found
I was sure that all was lost
And I would soon be underground

But in that moment there appeared
My new brother, Wawatum
He gave the chief all that he had
To buy my life, my freedom from the

Massacre at Mackinaw
Massacre at Mackinaw
Massacre at Mackinaw

Oh people, come gather round
I'm gonna tell you how it all went down
Oh people, go tell your friends
That Alexander Henry is alive again