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Artist/Band: John Denver
Lyrics for Song: Whalebones And Crosses
Lyrics for Album: Autograph [1980]



Whalebones and crosses

Stand against the Arctic sky.

The wind blows through the graveyard,

Where our fallen fathers lie.

Eternal snow that covers them.

The shadows of the sun.

The mighty struggle on the seas.

A way of life is run.

I'll sing for you my father.

For the ancient sacred ways

How the hunter loved the hunted.

How the night becomes the day

The circle of the mighty spirit

Keeps us in its fold.

The warmth of understanding like

A light shot through the cold

Then bring to me my people.

Touch them with your loving hands

Lead them from confusion.

Lead them back unto the land.

For sickness seems to block their path.

It clouds my people's eyes.

The promise that an idle truth

Will reap a golden lie.

Whalebones and crosses

Stand against the Arctic sky.

The wind blows through the graveyard,

Where our fallen fathers lie.

The timeless hunt a journey back

To what we once came from.

Compassion and nobility

Beneath the Midnight Sun.

The mighty struggle on the seas.

A way of life is run.


Album Lyrics: Autograph [1980]


John Denver
"Autograph [1980]"


1. The Mountain Song
2. How Mountain Girls Can Love
3. The Ballad Of St. Anne's Reel
4. Whalebones And Crosses