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 For a handsome sturdy
husband who builds
THE RIVERBEND handsome sturdy walls
And never dreams that
What I love most about rivers something might be coming?
is
You can't step in the same Just around the river bend
river twice Just around the river bend
The water's always changing, I look once more just around
always flowing the river bend
But people, I guess, can't live Beyond the shore somewhere
like that past the sea
We all must pay a price Don't know what for why do all
To be safe, we lose our my dreams extend
chance of ever knowing Just around the river bend,
just around the river bend
What's around the river bend
Waiting just around the river Should I choose the
bend smoothest curve
Steady as the beating drum?
I look once more just around Should I marry Kocoum?
the river bend Is all my dreaming at an end?
Beyond the shore where the Or do you still wait for me,
gulls fly free dream giver
Don't know what for what I Just around the river bend?
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?