Lyrics
Treaty Stone - 1978 - Tracklist
1. Girl
2. Black Is The Colour*
3. Little Martha And Me*
4. It's Not Good Enough
5. Deep Is The Night
6. Jenny Of The Sun
7. Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
8. Sweet For Sue*
9. Lonesome Robin*
10. The Treaty Stone
* Song not written by Luka Bloom / Instrumental
1.Girl
If winter's snow should fall
And the sky is pale and blue
If you're needing holding
Let me come to you
Girl, let me come to you
Girl, let me come to you
It's pretty as a morning
Gentle as a dove
She shines like the sunlight
The lady I love
Girl, the lady I love
Girl, the lady I love
Let me warm you
And let me keep you cool
And let me love you
Together through the rain
And we're walking in the snow
We'll find the sunrise
Everywhere we go
Girl, everywhere we go
Girl, everywhere we go
4.It's Not Good Enough
No, no, no, no
No, no, no, no
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
You can keep people hungry
Or try to leave them poor
But they will want some answers
Come knocking on your door
Take any living animal
If you don't treat him right
Every time you knock him down
He's going to get back up and fight
And if that is, and if that is a crime
And if that is, and if that is a crime
All our living's a waste of time
A waste of time
No, no, no, no
No, no, no, no
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
You can look for your justice
But just don't step out of line
Interrupt the judge's dinner
And you're in there doing time
We've women in our prisons
And men maimed in our cells
Condemned by men no better
Than to live in bloody hell
And if that is, and if that is a crime
And if that is, and if that is a crime
All our living's a waste of time
A waste of time
We've women in our prisons
And men maimed in our cells
Condemned by men no better
Than to live in bloody hell
And if that is, and if that is a crime
And if that is, and if that is a crime
All our living's a waste of time
A waste of time, a waste of time.
5.Deep Is The Night
I want to roll in the sand
And swim in the sea
Let the sun come through now
And bring it all back to me
When I awake with the birds
They're singing in the trees
They're singing let the sun come through now
And bring it all back to me
Deep is the night
Deep is the night
Deep is the night
You can have your Jaguar
You can keep your limousine
But let the sun come through now
And bring it all back to me
You sing in the rain
You can play in the snow
But if I can't have my sunshine
Well, I don't want to know
Don't want to know
Don't want to know
I don't want to know
Deep is the night
Deep is the night
Deep is the night
I want to roll in the sand
And swim in the sea
So let the sun come through now
And bring it all back to me
You sing in the rain
You can play in the snow
But if I can't have my sunshine
I don't want to know
No, I don't want to know
I don't want to know
I don't want to know
I don't want to know
Deep is the night
Deep is the night
Deep is the night ...
6.Jenny Of The Sun
Children playing in the rain
They're going home from school again
They're trapped in a world waging war all around them
And we in our blindness for Jenny we cry
As she smiles through the drops in her window
And we in our blindness for Jenny we cry
As she smiles through the drops in her window
And the heaven-borne sun
Is shining through Jenny's window
Brightens her life as she smiles
At the birds in the garden
One bird he sings, he sings a happy song
He sings for me Jenny of the sun
Sings for me Jenny of the sun
Someone passing stops and sees
The children playing in the rain
Oh God, will you please give me the strength
That Jenny she might be the same
And we in our blindness for Jenny we cry
As she smiles through the drops in her window
And we in our blindness for Jenny we cry
As she smiles through the drops in her window
And then I knew that Jenny was in her own world
A world that's really not quite like my own
For ours is a world of aeroplanes and wars
And hers is the sound of the birds as they sing
And the sun as it shines through her window
And the sun as it shines through her window
And the heaven-borne sun
Is shining through Jenny's window
Brightens her life as she smiles
At the birds in the garden
One bird he sings, and he sings a happy song
He sings for me Jenny of the sun
He sings for me Jenny of the sun
He sings for me Jenny of the sun.
7.Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
When the river runs to the mountain
And the birds swim in the sea
Only then, can you justify
Taking a man's liberty
When we lived on the prairie
Hunting buffalo
Happy in the sunshine
Contented in the snow
We cherished our rivers
We nourished our lands
Our children grew in freedom
Into men and women strong, women strong
And then came the white man
Searching for gold
We opened our arms to you
Welcomed young and old, young and old
And then you built your railways
And then you came in scores
And then you came in thousands
And then a million more, a million more
All this time you told us
That we should live as one
And then you brought your armies
To throw us out with guns, out with guns
You are the savage
We are the wise
We told the truth, man
You told the lies, told the lies
You slaughtered our children
You'd murder your own
Your greed for yellow metal
Drove us from our homes, from our homes
When the river runs to the mountain
And the birds swim in the sea
Only then, can you justify
Taking a man's liberty
You've taken away all our lives
You've claimed our liberty
So bury my heart at Wounded Knee
10.Treaty Stone
I'll soon leave the treaty
Say goodbye to the stone
I'm sorry to leave you
And sometimes sad to go
Well, I've sat by your waters
And dreamed my cares away
And I've listened to your songbirds
Asking if I'll stay
I'll soon leave the treaty
Say goodbye to the stone
I'm sorry to leave you
And sometimes sad to go.
