I DREAMED OF YUKON

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Cypress Choral Music · I Dreamed of Yukon – Isabel Belina; arr. Trent Worthington

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Cypress Choral Music · 11) I Dreamed Of Yukon- Sweet Home Canada Suite – by Isabel Belina

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LYRICS

I dreamed I was a mountain, – a mountain in the Yukon
And I was tall as I could ever be
Standing with the others
My sisters and my brothers
Bound by our collective memory
Our ancient craggy features
Beneath eternal snow
Absorbed into the ever-changing light
The yellow of the early morn
The sunset’s deepest rose
The ghostly aura of a moonlit night
I dreamed I was a mountain – a mountain in the Yukon
And I was tall as I could ever be

Refrain: Glaciers, snowfall, ices floes, Yukon
Sunlight, moon glow, rain shadows,

Yukon I dreamed I was a river – a river in the Yukon
And I was cold as I could ever be
Flowing fast and steady
Through every curve and eddy
Westward to the Bering Sea
The banks have been eroding
For a hundred million years
Or that’s how long it seems that it must be
The journeys of the sun and moon
The rain and snow that falls
The endless repetition comforts me.
I dreamed I was a river – a river in the Yukon
And I was cold as I could ever be.

Refrain…..
I dreamed I was a raven – a raven in the Yukon

And I was black, as black as I could be
Flying with one other, my life mate and no other
Silhouettes of ebony
And there are those who live here
Who call the raven Crow
Who freed the Yukon from eternal night
By flying east and stealing
With his cunning and his wit T
he precious day caught in a ball of light
I dreamed I was a raven – a raven in the Yukon
And I was black as I could ever be.