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)