Lee Mellor - Nowhere, Manitoba lyrics

[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 s**s 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...