See How All The Horses Come Dancing
(Michael Martin Murphey)

Black Elk is sick and may be dying
Said the old man to his wife
Even now the holy man is singing
May WakumTanka spare his life

Black Elk was trance-like in a death sleep
Dreaming of two men with flaming spears
Took him to a white plain high above the clouds
Left him alone and disappeared

And then a Bay horse stood before him
Said, Now my life history you shall see

Chorus:
See how all the horses come dancing
Come dancing
Dancing
Dancing
Dancing wild and free
Dancing
Dancing
Dancing wild and free

Twelve black horses with manes of lightning in the night
Twelve white horses with white ? circling thunderin' past
Twelve sorrel horses with eyes like stars and manes of light
Twelve buckskins with horns on their heads and manes of grass

And then the horses formed a line of four abreast
The bay horse turned his head west and he neighed
And the sky was like a storm of thundering horses
And Little Black Elk was afraid

And then the horses changed to all creatures
Into every form of life that there can be

Repeat Chorus
Oh, see how all the horses come dancing

Dancing
Dancing
Dancing wild and free

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