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Hope Signals

from Too Late to Panic by John Lyle

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Hope Signals

I am not an Indian from two hundred years ago
I don’t live in a teepee, and I can’t shoot a bow
I’m out of touch with nature, and I watch too much tv
But I hope, when I die, there’ll be another me

I’m sending hope signals across the Great Divide
Hope signals, send me back in time
I want to be an Indian out on the Western Plain
Come a-ty-yi-yipee
Come a-ty-yi-yipee-yipee-yay

I’ll be a Shawnee buck with braids in my hair
I’ll drink the sparkling water and I’ll breathe the living air
I’ll love a tender maiden underneath the shining stars
And I’ll never have to ride in the beast they call the car

I’m sending hope signals across the Great Divide
Hope signals, send me back in time
I want to be an Indian out on the Western Plain
Come a-ty-yi-yipee
Come a-ty-yi-yipee-yipee-yay

The coyote will howl at the fullness of the moon
With an aching in his heart, like a frost on love in bloom
And when the Europeans with their rifles and their booze
Come and show me how to win,
I will show them how to lose

I’m sending hope signals across the Great Divide
Hope signals, send me back in time
I want to be an Indian out on the Western Plain
Come a-ty-yi-yipee
Come a-ty-yi-yipee-yipee-yay

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from Too Late to Panic, released October 10, 2000
John Lyle- vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, keyboard & bass.

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John Lyle Sechelt, British Columbia

The lyrics for most of the songs appearing in these albums are available in book form: "The Kindest Lies: the Lyrics of John Lyle", published by Leaky Boot Press (June 28, 2013).

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