The Cheyenne River flows and the cherry blossom grows in the nighttime We were all asleep in the old Dakota heat in the nighttime, in the nighttime Heaven shook her frown as the coyotes ran to ground for to bed down Our courage convalesced on our mother’s heavy breast; she wore a white gown; her skin was light brown And she put on a show, you know, with the iridescent glow and the heart of a buffalo And she beat the drum away with a steady beat and sway as she shouted a hoka hey She sang a good song as she danced along, barefoot in the prairie dawn Many years before the Indian wars Hiawatha sang as Iktomi played his games in the daytime And we mistook him for a man as he vanished into sand in the dry land by the Cheyenne There’s something in the stare and the subtle debonair of a young man A choker on the throat, a breastplate made of bone, and a green stone behind his pony’s ear And he put on a show, you know, with the iridescent glow and the heart of a buffalo And he beat the drum away with a steady beat and sway as he shouted a hoka hey He sang a good song, and he danced along, barefoot in the prairie dawn Many years before the Indian wars Sacred is the gaze of the men who knew the days of the old lands Their churches in the hills, and gold beneath their heels: it was asleep, then stirred by a steel drill Lacking an excuse but wanting for the truth of how a son came What grandfather sang was the missionaries’ bane—what a loud clang, and such a damn shame ’Cause we put on a show, you know, with the iridescent glow and the heart of a buffalo And we beat the drum away with a steady beat and sway as we shouted a hoka hey We sang a good song, and we danced along, barefoot in the prairie dawn It was many years before the Indian war Everybody knows that the cherry blossom grows in the nighttime And everybody sleeps as God shuffles his feet at the right time, at the right time And he put on a show, you know…
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