Whooping Crane

Woke up to the sun

Beating through my window

It looks like a clementine

Reaching across the willow

Reaching across the meadow

I open up my window

Let the rays come in

I say, “hello mother nature

I’m going to let you in

I’m going to let you in

Mother nature calls to me

She says, “I’m feeling blue

All you people take from me

And there’s nothing I can do

No there’s nothing I can do”

See I know many mothers

Who don’t deserve that pain

See my mom’s happiness is gone

Like the whooping crane

Just like the whooping crane

Ooo

So I’ll go wanderin’

I’ll go to the river, lay my body down

I am decomposing

Like my mother’s frowns

Like my mother’s frowns

Mother nature embrace me

I can’t feel my head

I say, “hello” to the fishermen

I’m sorry that they take from you

I think so do I

I took all your nurturing

When Papa said, “Goodbye”