Don Fardon “Indian Reservation” (The Lament of The Cherokee) I’m going to link to two videos together- this and Paul Revere and the Raiders “Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)” is a song written by John D. Loudermilk.[2] It was first recorded by Marvin Rainwater in 1959 and released on MGM as “The Pale Faced Indian”, but that release went unnoticed. The first hit version was a 1968 recording by Don Fardon – a former member of the Sorrows – that reached number 20 o