Dancing Virginia

Your moon has come out tonight

Round as a crying eye

Round as a ringlet of smoke

From your smoke signal sky

I am the oak and the maple

I have covered my roots

You are the dancing Virginia

In black leather boots

Come as the silver morning

Come as a dragonfly

Come as my sleeping sister

Through the midnight sky

Cover me with your fire's ashes

Cover me with your midnight veil

Cover me with your smoky river

Cover me, dancing Virginia

There's a pain in my side

And it's killing me

There's a field of crows

Now a black sea

And I've called upon the hills

And I've called upon the soil

And they've screamed in my ear

Where's your heart, boy?

Cover me with your fire's ashes

Cover me with your midnight veil

Cover me with your smoky river

Cover me, dancing Virginia

Your moon has come out tonight

Round as a crying eye

Round as a ringlet of smoke

From your smoke signal sky

Come as the silver morning

Come as a dragonfly

Come as my sleeping sister

Through the midnight sky

Cover me with your fire's ashes

Cover me with your midnight veil

Cover me with your smoky river

Cover me, dancing Virginia

Cover me with your revelation

Cover me with your sorrows tale

Cover me with your holy water

Cover me, dancing Virginia

The gray elephant folds of adventure

(Cover me with your fire's ashes)

The blue oasis of meditation

(Cover me with your midnight veil)

The feathered touch of a sleepy afternoon

(Cover me with your revelation)

Beneath the tent of a palmetto haven

(Cover me with your sorrows tale)

And I'm rising upwards from my feet

(Cover me with your holy water)

As children run side by side with their elation

(Cover me, dancing Virginia)