Dancing Virginia

Your moon has come out tonight,
Round as 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 the dragonfly,
Come as my sleeping sister,
Through the midnight sky...

CHORUS
Cover me with your fire's ashes,
Cover me with your midnight veil,
Cover me with your smokey 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 have called upon the hills,
And I have called upon the soil,
And they have screamed in my ear,
"Where's your heart, boy?"

CHORUS

Your moon has come out tonight,
Round as crying eye,
Round as a ringlet of smoke,
From your smoke signal sky.

Come as the silver morning,
Come as the dragonfly,
Come as my sleeping sister,
Through the midnight sky...

CHORUS

Cover me with your revelation,
Cover me with your sorrow's tale,
Cover me with your holy water,
Cover me, dancing Virginia.

The gray elephant folds of adventure,
The blue oasis of meditation,
The feathered touch of a sleepy afternoon,
Beneath the tent of a palmetto haven.
And I'm rising upwards from my feet,
As children run side by side with their elation.