Yonder Mountain String Band - Dawn's Early Light lyrics

That old prairie wind is blowing I can feel it on my face As the land, it rolls out before me Everything is in it's place My old home, I'll never go to My old home, I'll never see For I must ride now across these flatlands Fleein' the man who murdered me Chorus: By the dawn's early light Oh now, I must saddle up and ride By the dawn's early light Oh now, ride through the night Into the dawn's early light In the state of Indiana Lived the man who k**ed my son I shot him dead, now I did it indeed After ten long years on the run But that man, he was not a loner Had two brothers, Lord, you see They flipped a coin to let fate decide Which one would come and murder me [ Chorus ] Sun comes up, down in the valley In the air, sensation (???) When I see comin' up around the corner Both of the Brothers riding right in front of me Down in the valley it's two against one All men reaching for their guns Three shots fired down deep in the valley Two men dying in the morning sun By the dawn's early light My boy's kneelin' by my side By the dawn's early light As I lay me down to die By the dawn's early light Oh now, I must saddle up and ride By the dawn's early light Oh now, ride through the night Riding along into the night Riding along into the night Well, it must've been five, six years ago under the dawn's early light Well, I led my darling down the old vermillion way Well, I led her down to the riverside (???) And we said our vows in the moonlight that night And we knew from that day we'd never be apart But then it all changed in the blink of an eye