Dawn's Early Light - Yonder Mountain String Band

That old prairie wind is blowing

I can feel it on my face

As the land, it rolls out before me

Everything is in it’s place

My old home, I’ll never go to

My old home, I’ll never see

For I must ride now across these flatlands

Fleein' the man who murdered me

By the dawn’s early light

Oh now, I must saddle up and ride

By the dawn’s early light

Oh now, ride through the night

Into the dawn’s early light

In the state of Indiana

Lived the man who killed my son

I shot him dead, now I did it indeed

After ten long years on the run

But that man, he was not a loner

Had two brothers, Lord, you see

They flipped a coin to let fate decide

Which one would come and murder me

Sun comes up, down in the valley

In the air, sensation (???)

When I see comin' up around the corner

Both of the Brothers riding right in front of me

Down in the valley it’s two against one

All men reaching for their guns

Three shots fired down deep in the valley

Two men dying in the morning sun

By the dawn’s early light

My boy’s kneelin' by my side

By the dawn’s early light

As I lay me down to die

By the dawn’s early light

Oh now, I must saddle up and ride

By the dawn’s early light

Oh now, ride through the night

Riding along into the night

Riding along into the night

Well, it must’ve been five, six years ago under the dawn’s early light

Well, I led my darling down the old vermillion way

Well, I led her down to the riverside (???)

And we said our vows in the moonlight that night

And we knew from that day we’d never be apart

But then it all changed in the blink of an eye