David Rovics - Ghost Dance Lullaby lyrics

(chorus) Sleep, sleep, long may you slumber Neath the moonlight's beam In the night your hard times will be over In the valleys of your dreams Close your eyes and let the night wash you into its warm embrace Feel the stars bathe you and the cool breezes blow softly upon your face For once you're asleep the owl will fly down from its perch on the moon It will outstretch its talons and take our house on a trip past the lake's laughing loons Over cities we'll roam and into the mountains where we'll travel so far and so high Past smokestacks and highways and flickering lights to the snowcapped peaks of nigh And there we will stay with our families and lovers while we await the scene down below Beneath us the world bustles but up in the mountains it's just us and the snow So sleep... And when the time comes a great flood will wash all of the cities away While we're up in the mountains biding our time the deserts will turn into plains The farms will grow forests, the wheat turned to gra** and the earth will quake with the sound Of the buffalo herds that storm through the land, covering earth all around And the air will be fresh as the running streams and the birds all around will take flight And the sky will be filled with migrating flocks to make day turn into night And we'll come down from the mountains and live in the towns or travel along on the plains With a new start to take and a new world to make, free of these civilized stains So sleep...