Black Prairie - Trask lyrics

Upon the Clatsop Plains There lived a restless man His fire was not cooled by the rain His longing for this land In 1843 With a Tamanawis guide He crossed the great Mt. Neah-Kahnie Under stormy skies The k**amook Tyee Made him prove his worth He walked into the forest deep To the belly of the earth His name was Elbridge Trask And he laid his body down upon the gra** Where his heart had called him home He went solemn to his task Searching ever for the path Under branch and moss and stone From darkness he awoke With spirits all around He carried them back tied with a rope And laid them on the ground His name was Elbridge Trask And he laid his body down upon the gra** Where his heart had called him home The people followed in his tracks And built their houses on the land Where the spirits once had flown