Johnny Cash - Hiawatha’s Vision lyrics

On the shores of Gitchgoomy by
The shining Big Sea water
Hiawatha old and graying listened to the
Older prophet listened to Lagu
And the young men and the women
From the land of Ojibways
From the land of the Dakotas from
The woodlands and the prairies
Stood and listened to the prophet
Heard lagu tell Hiawatha
I have seen, he said
A water bigger than the Big sea water
Broader than the Gitchgoomy bitter so
That none cold drink it
Salty so that none would use it
Hiawatha then spoke to them
Stopped all their jeering and their jesting
And he spoke to all the people
It's true what Lagu tells you for I
Have seen it in a vision
I have also seen the water to the
East to the land of morning
And upon this great water came
A strange canoe with pinions
Bigger than a grove of pine trees
Taller than the tallest tree tops
And upon this great canoe were
Sails to carry it swiftly
And it carried many people
Strange and foreign were these people
And white were all their faces and
With hair their chins were covered
Then said Hiawatha, I beheld a darker vision
Many hundreds came behind them pushed
Their way across our prairies
In our woodlands rang their axes
In our valleys smoked their cities
Our people were all scattered all
Forgetful of our councils
Left their homelands going westward
Wild and woeful
And the man with bearded faces
The men with skin so fair
With their barking sticks of thunder drove
The remnants of our people
Farther westward, westward
Westward then wild wild and wilder
Grew the west that once was ours