Prairie dream

written by Judy Collins/ The Judy Collins Publishing Company (ASCAP) or The

Wildflowers Company/Admin by Universal Music Corp (ASCAP) when noted.

The thunder of the hooves of Indian ponies

Wild with running, beautiful as light

Flash into my dreams along the prairie

The hero Sioux, the spirits of the night

With buffalo who used to roam the mountains

Through the canyons, through the wind-blown grass

Hooves that beat past swiftly running rivers

And sounds of centuries like breaking glass

Shot from trains and shot from painted horses

Shot down running in their murdered fear

Gone before the quarter of the century

Leaving nothing but the sound of tears

Starving in their trails of blood and sorrow

Ancient creatures innocent of crime

Manifest in destiny they flounder

Like the wandering footsteps of the blind

Sundown, sunrise

All the sainted tribes and missionaries

All the wagon trains of yearning hearts

Testify to madness and to bloodshed

Among the buffalo as time departs

Alas for murdering the dreams of warriors,

Women, children sleep in innocence

Fires raged across the burning deserts

Let the tears of history commence

Sundown, sunrise

May the pioneers plant in their gardens

Among the bones of dreamers by the creek

Where they somehow found the peace of silence

With no maddening secrets they could keep

The thunder of the hooves of Indian ponies

Wild with running, beautiful as light

Flash into my dreams along the prairie

The hero Sioux, Comanches of the night

Arapahoe, the Nez Perce of the night

The Cherokee, spirits of the night

Sundown, sunrise