Tonalité : A major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Sequoia's winters were sixteen
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Silent tongue spirit clean
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He walked at his father's side
Across the smoking battle ground
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Where red and white men lay all around
Esus4
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So many here had died
Verse 2
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The wind had scattered around
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Snow white leaves upon the ground
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Not leaves like leaves from trees
Sequoia said, "What can this be?"
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"What's the strange
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thing here I see?"
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"From where come leaves
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like these?"
Verse 3
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Sequoia turned to his father's eyes
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And he said, "Father you're wise
From where come such
snow white leaves
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With such strange marks upon
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these squares
Not even the wise owl could put them there
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So strange these snow white leaves"
Verse 4
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Em
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His father shielding his concern
Resenting the knowledge
Sequoia yearned
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Crumbled the snow white leaves
He said, "When I explain
then it's done
These are talking leaves, my son
The white men's talk
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ing leaves"
Verse 5
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The white man takes a berry
of black and red
And an eagle's feather
from the eagle's bed
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And he makes bird track marks
And the marks on the leaves they say
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Carry messages to his brother far away
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And his brother knows
Verse 6
what's in his heart
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They see these marks and they
understand
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The truth in the heart of the far off man
The enemies can't hear them
Said Sequoia's father, "Son
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They weave bad medicine
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on these talking leaves
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Leave such things to them"
Verse 7
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Then Sequoia walking lightly
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Followed his father quietly
But so amazed was he
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If the white man talks on leaves
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Why not the Cherokee?
Verse 8
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Vanished from his father's face
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Sequoia went from place to place
But he could not forget
Year after year he worked on and on
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Till finally he cut in to stone
Verse 9
The Cherokee alphabet
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Sequoia's hair by now was white
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His eyes began to lose their light
But he taught all who would believe
That the Indian's thoughts
could be written down
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Just as the white men's
there on the ground
Outro 1
And he left us these talking leaves
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