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Track: The Vampire
Artist: Buffy Sainte-Marie
Album: Illuminations

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Name: Buffy Sainte-Marie
Spotify Genres: native american music, folk rock, folk
Followers: 111,092
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Singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, pacifist, educator, social activist, and philanthropist, born February 20, 1941 in Stoneham, Mass. At times she has self-identified as Cree and stated she was born in Saskatchewan, Canada, to an indigenous family, but averred that her Canadian birth certificate from back then was lost or destroyed. She came under fire in late 2023 for allegedly manufacturing this indigenous background and hiding her Massachusetts birth to white parents of Italian ancestry, according to a CBC documentary that found her original 1941 U.S. birth certificate. Sainte-Marie’s Order of Canada appointment was terminated by an ordinance signed by Gov. Gen. Mary Simon on January 3, 2025; no reason was given for the termination. She came up in the Greenwich Village scene in New York in the 1960s and her music has generally been categorized as folk and traditional music (although she did record one mostly-country album in Nashville: "I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again".) She won an Oscar in the mid-1980s for co-writing the hit "Up Where We Belong" for the "Officer And A Gentleman" film soundtrack.

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Release: Buffy Sainte-Marie - The Best Of Buffy Sainte-Marie
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Genres: Rock
Styles: Folk Rock, Psychedelic Rock

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LYRICS

Shall I tell you of the night
It was long ago
Late November and the snow
Just about to fall
And the moon was big and bright
Cold and sharp and clear
And the air was biting

Softly, swiftly down the road -
Never made a sound-
Someone came from far away

As I looked into his eyes
No reflections came
And I gave him bedding

Oh my little rosary
How I miss you so
Never used you very well
Now I never will.

I am farther from you now
Than the two ends of Eternity
Now I do his bidding.