debris

THE There's silver rivers flow

VIRGINIA And gold you pick right
off a tree
COMPANY With a nugget for my
Winnie
In sixteen hundred And another one for me
seven And all the rest'll go
We sail the open sea To The Virginia
For glory, God, and gold Company
And The Virginia It's glory, God and gold
Company And The Virginia
Company.
For the New World is
like heaven
And we'll all be rich and
free
REPISE
Or so we have been We'll kill ourselves an
told “Injun”
By The Virginia Or maybe two or three
Company We're stalwart men and
bold
For glory, God and gold
Of the Virginia Company
And The Virginia
Company It's glory, God, and gold
On the beaches of And the Virginia Company!
Virginny
There's diamonds like
STEADY AS THE strong
Walk in balance all our
BEATING DRUM days
Hega hega ya-hi-ye-hega Seasons go and seasons
Ya-hi-ye-ne-he hega come
Hega hega ya-hi-ye-hega Steady as the beating
Ya-hi-ye-ne-he hega drum
Plum to seed to bud to
Steady as the beating plum
drum (Hega hega ya-hi-ye hega)
Singing to the cedar flute Steady as the beating
Seasons go and seasons drum
come Hega hega ya-hi-ye-hega
Bring the corn and bear Ya-hi-ye-ne-he hega
the fruit Hega hega ya-hi-ye-hega
Ya-hi-ye-ne-he hega
By the waters sweet and Hega hega hega.
clean
Where the mighty
sturgeon lives REPISE
Plant the squash and reap
the bean As the river cuts his path
All the earth our mother Though the river's proud
gives and strong
He will chose the
O Great Spirit, hear our smoothest course
song That's why rivers live so
Help us keep the ancient long
ways They're steady as the
Keep the sacred fire steady beating drum.
JUST AROUND
THE RIVERBEND
What I love most about rivers
is
You can't step in the same
river twice
The water's always changing,
always flowing
But people, I guess, can't live
like that
We all must pay a price
To be safe, we lose our
chance of ever knowing
What's around the river bend
Waiting just around the river
bend
I look once more just around
the river bend
Beyond the shore where the
gulls fly free
Don't know what for what I
dream the day might send
Just around the river bend for
me, coming for me
I feel it there beyond those
trees
Or right behind these
waterfalls
Can I ignore that sound of
distant drumming?
For a handsome sturdy
husband who builds
handsome sturdy walls
And never dreams that
something might be coming?
Just around the river bend
Just around the river bend
I look once more just around
the river bend
Beyond the shore somewhere
past the sea
Don't know what for why do all
my dreams extend
Just around the river bend,
just around the river bend
Should I choose the
smoothest curve
Steady as the beating drum?
Should I marry Kocoum?
Is all my dreaming at an end?
Or do you still wait for me,
dream giver
Just around the river bend?