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