Dancing Virginia Lyrics

The moon has come out tonight
Round as a crying eye
Round as a ringlet of smoke
In your smoke signal sky
And I am the oak and the maple
And I have covered my dues
You are the dancing Virginia
in black leather boots

Come as a silver morning
Come as a dragonfly
Come as my sleeping sister
Through the midnight sky

Cover me with your fire's ashes
Cover me with your midnight veil
Cover me with your smokey river
Cover me, dancing Virginia

There's a pain in my side
And it's killing me
There's a fields of bones
Now in Biloxi
And I've called upon the hills
And I've called upon the soil
And they screamed in my ear:
"Where's your heart, boy?"

Cover me with your fire's ashes
Cover me with your midnight veil
Cover me with your smokey river
Cover me, dancing Virginia

The moon has come out tonight
Round as a crying eye
Round as a ringlet of smoke
From your smoke signal sky
Come as a silver morning
Come as a dragonfly
Come as my sleeping sister
Through the midnight sky

Cover me with your fire's ashes
Cover me with your midnight veil
Cover me with your smokey river
Cover me, dancing Virginia

Cover me with your revelation
Cover me with your sorrow's tale
Cover me with your holy water
Cover me dancing Virginia

The gray elephant folds under tension
The oasis of meditation