Lyrics
Oso Blanco
There ain’t a single story
That comes from out of nowhere.
Every tale’s got its roots in a moment of truth
Deep in the core of the legends we bear.
Well, Robin Hood must have stood for more
Than just rob from the rich and give to the poor:
An idea, a hope, the will to fight,
And the courage to give everything for something right.
Let the people sing…
It’s a long way to Nottingham Shire
Or Chiapas, Mexico,
But you can’t tell me that Robin Hood ain’t real
Since the feds caught up with Oso Blanco!
The cynics might bury their hope
And treat their fear with cocaine.
But sure as terror still chills in New Mexico’s heat,
You know it gives the streets their name.
Well he ain’t no Hollywood God now,
Up on the silver screen, smooth and debonair.
The real deal looks, talks and fights like the streets
A hard-living red man with black, black hair.
So let the people sing…
It’s a long way to Nottingham Shire
Or Chiapas, Mexico,
But you can’t tell me that Robin Hood ain’t real,
Since the feds caught up with Oso Blanco!
It’s a long way to Nottingham Shire
Or Chiapas, Mexico,
But you can’t tell me that Robin Hood ain’t real,
Since the feds caught up with Oso Blanco!
Byron Shane Chubbuck, also known as Oso Blanco, is a wolf clan Cherokee/Choctaw raised in New Mexico. Throughout 1998 and 1999 he robbed a number of banks and used the proceeds to send assistance to the Zapatista Rebels in Chiapas, Mexico. After the FBI learned that he was giving the money away to aid the poor and the dispossessed they dubbed him “Robin the Hood”. Following his arrest Oso Blanco was sentenced to 80 years in a federal prison and he is currently serving that sentence in the US.
For more information and to offer support to Byron, please visit his website at www.osoblanco.org.
To continue Oso Blanco’s mission and support children in Chiapas, visit the site of Schools For Chiapas
(Marek Vermin)
