Cathie Ryan - In My Tribe lyrics

In Monument Valley we ride Myself and my Navajo guide I'm moved by the majesty that lives here in this place His native home, the dry desert of his race I don't know these mesas or these lands Like the fields my mother plowed beside her dad And I hold every story that her father told to me As dear as myths of the Anasazi We ride on and sing our peoples' songs From roots that run as deep as they do long And although I was born here and raised in this nation The blood is strong in the first generation My grandmother swept a dirt floor As the Navajo did here before Kayenta and Kerry may be wide water apart But we're alike in the deep core of the heart I've seen the sun set at The Sun's Eye Left an echo in The Hogan nearby A song of my people that my mother gave to me In my tribe music is blood memory Music is blood memory