Текст песни: Cheyenne River + перевод

The Cheyenne River flows and the cherry blossom grows in the nighttime

We were all asleep in the old Dakota heat in the nighttime, in the nighttime

Heaven shook her frown as the coyotes ran to ground for to bed down

Our courage convalesced on our mother’s heavy breast; she wore a white gown;

her skin was light brown

And she put on a show, you know, with the iridescent glow and the heart of a

buffalo

And she beat the drum away with a steady beat and sway as she shouted a hoka hey

She sang a good song as she danced along, barefoot in the prairie dawn

Many years before the Indian wars

Hiawatha sang as Iktomi played his games in the daytime

And we mistook him for a man as he vanished into sand in the dry land by the

Cheyenne

There’s something in the stare and the subtle debonair of a young man

A choker on the throat, a breastplate made of bone, and a green stone behind

his pony’s ear

And he put on a show, you know, with the iridescent glow and the heart of a

buffalo

And he beat the drum away with a steady beat and sway as he shouted a hoka hey

He sang a good song, and he danced along, barefoot in the prairie dawn

Many years before the Indian wars

Sacred is the gaze of the men who knew the days of the old lands

Their churches in the hills, and gold beneath their heels: it was asleep,

then stirred by a steel drill

Lacking an excuse but wanting for the truth of how a son came

What grandfather sang was the missionaries' bane—what a loud clang,

and such a damn shame

'Cause we put on a show, you know, with the iridescent glow and the heart of a

buffalo

And we beat the drum away with a steady beat and sway as we shouted a hoka hey

We sang a good song, and we danced along, barefoot in the prairie dawn

It was many years before the Indian war

Everybody knows that the cherry blossom grows in the nighttime

And everybody sleeps as God shuffles his feet at the right time,

at the right time

And he put on a show, you know…

Перевод песни Cheyenne River