Your moon has come out tonight Round as a crying eye Round as a ringlet of smoke From your smoke signal sky I am the oak and the maple I have covered my roots You are the dancing Virginia In black leather boots Come as the 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 smoky river Cover me, dancing Virginia There's a pain in my side And it's killing me There's a field of crows Now a black sea And I've called upon the hills And I've called upon the soil And they've 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 smoky river Cover me, dancing Virginia Your moon has come out tonight Round as a crying eye Round as a ringlet of smoke From your smoke signal sky Come as the 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 smoky river Cover me, dancing Virginia Cover me with your revelation Cover me with your sorrows tale Cover me with your holy water Cover me, dancing Virginia The gray elephant folds of adventure (Cover me with your fire's ashes) The blue oasis of meditation (Cover me with your midnight veil) The feathered touch of a sleepy afternoon (Cover me with your revelation) Beneath the tent of a palmetto haven (Cover me with your sorrows tale) And I'm rising upwards from my feet (Cover me with your holy water) As children run side by side with their elation (Cover me, dancing Virginia)