Lyrics

Turtle Mountain - Jolly Gargoyle
(© 1992 Pushkin, Ramey)

Sun let me rise on up over your horizon
Let me lay my eyes on the land I used to know
You who've been burning for many years
Don't confirm our worst fears
Just let me catch a glimpse
Before I have to go

In this land we're living
Take without giving
Who are we kidding
How long can it last
Once this land we're found on
Was a lush fertile fountain
On the great Turtle Mountain
Our glory is now past

Chorus:
Don't burn us don't burn us
With your cross iron furnace
Return us relearn us
To our simpler ways
You can't enlighten
With thunder and lightning
Great father of titans
Won't ya shine through the haze

Then came the clampdown
They forced us into camptown
And the land was fence bound
As were our souls
Forced us to eat cow
Take up a steel plow
I beg return me now
To the days of old

Chorus

In this land we're living
Take without giving
Who are we kidding
How long can it last
Once this land we're found on
Was a lush fertile fountain
On the great Turtle Mountain
Our glory is now past

Chorus


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