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Johnny Cash - The Talking Leaves Lyrics

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

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