We’ve Been Together On This Earth Before

Lyrics

[Verse 1] We've been together on this earth before Down in New Mexico We were red of the skin, we were Indian That was a long time ago [Verse 2] We stood and gazed at the moon like this Stood here loving the stars We swam the rivers in the forest below Before the coming of the cars [Verse 3] Well we had the rains, and we had the winds Our lands they knew no ends We were satisfied to live and to die In the ways of the Indian [Instrumental break] [Verse 4] Ah but gone are the ways that we used to know Gone is the peace of old Now all is out upon a frantic road In search of the vanishing gold [Verse 5] We are born white men now, we must do what we can Even though they suffer the land Perhaps there is something we can do on this earth Come and I'll take your hand [Verse 6] For dimmed are the stars that we used to know The rivers they run unclean The earth cries out, but she is not heard Except in the Indian dream [Verse 7] Ah may the hills of your life not be too steep May the old ways not run too deep May the seasons of your youth be as graceful as then When we were brothers of the wind [Verse 8] My son, my son, I'm glad you're born For we rode together as one We were free back then, we were men back then When we were the Indian