1492 In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, It was a courageous thing to do, But someone was already here. CHORUS The Inuit and Cherokee, The Aztec and Menominee, The Onandaga and the Cree, Yes someone was already here. Columbus knew the world was round So he looked for the East while westward bound, But he didn’t find what he thought he found, And someone was already here. CHORUS The Inuit and Cherokee, The Aztec and Menominee, The Onandaga and the Cree, Yes someone was already here. It isn’t like it was empty space, Caribs met him face to face. Could anyone discover the place When someone was already here? CHORUS The Inuit and Cherokee, The Aztec and Menominee, The Onandaga and the Cree, Yes someone was already here. So tell me, who discovered what? He thought he was in a different spot. Columbus was lost, the Caribs were not For the Caribs were already here. CHORUS The Inuit and Cherokee, The Aztec and Menominee, The Onandaga and the Cree, Yes someone was already here. Words by Nancy Schimmell

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