The wilderness of manitoba Native tongue One day the axe just fell Driving me to hell And back from where I came Will never look the same way Twice without a thought The lies always caught Just once it spread without a clue Down the river bank from me to you A native tongue will speak words it will never seek From a book of poems Connected minds will always know them all The mind will roam Swim in streams Crawl under stones and still Without a clue Down the river bank from me to you One day the axe just fell Driving me to hell And back from where I came Will never look the same way Twice without a thought The lies always caught Just once it spread without a clue Down the river bank from me to you