"BUFFALOES IN THE SKY" genre: Native American
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	A NARRATIVE WITH SOUND EFFECTS....A GREAT, SLIGHTLY SPOOKY STORY FOR CHILDREN!
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	Story Behind the Song ONE AFTERNOON I WAS OUTSIDE AS A HUGE THUNDERSTORM WAS BREWING. THUNDER WAS ROLLING, WIND WAS WHIPPING ME, AND LIGHTENING BEGAN STREAKING THE SKY. ALL OF A SUDDEN I REMEMBERED AN EXPERIENCE OF A FRIEND OF MINE, NAMED BUFFALO BIG MOUNTAIN, WHO SAW A HERD OF BUFFALOES IN CLOUD FORMATIONS ONE DAY WHILE RIDING ON HIS MOTOR CYCLE...THIS STORY THEN POPPED INTO MY HEAD AND I RAN INSIDE AND WROTE IT DOWN... Lyrics BUFFALOES IN THE SKY IN THE SEASONS OF MY YOUTH..UPON MY MOTHER'S KNEE, I LISTENED TO THE OLD ONES TELL THIS STORY JUST FOR ME-- A YOUNG BRAVE SENT TO FIND THE MEAT, WAS THOUGHT TO TELL A LIE!.. FOR HE REPORTED HAVING SEEN BUFFALOES IN THE SKY! "YES!" SAID HE, "I SAW THEM THERE! A GREAT AND RUNNING HERD!" THE WISE ONES OF THE COUNCIL RIDICULED HIS EVERY WORD... THE PEOPLE LAUGHED UNTIL A BITTER TEAR CAME TO HIS EYE-- "WE MUST GROW WINGS.." THEY SAID, "TO HUNT BUFFALOES IN THE SKY!" THE YOUNG BRAVE SAT BESIDE HIS FIRE TIL DEEP INTO THE NIGHT.. HE PONDERED ON HIS LOVE FOR TRUTH, HE PONDERED ON HIS SIGHT! AND JUST BEFORE GRANDMOTHER SUN AWOKE THE BIRDS TO FLY, HIS FATHER CAME AND SPOKE TO HIM OF BUFFALOES IN THE SKY... "FATHER, I HAVE TOLD NO LIE! I SAW IN GREAT DETAIL.. THE CURVING HORNS AND FLASHING HOOVES, UPON THE GREAT BLUE TRAIL! I EVEN SAW A HUNTER WITH HIS ARROW SET TO FLY, TO KILL THE GREATEST, STRONGEST OF THE BUFFALOES IN THE SKY!".. "MY SON, I'M JUST AN OLD MAN NOW, AND NOT THE ONCE GREAT CHIEF... BUT I KNOW YOU HAVE SPOKEN TRUE..AND THIS IS MY BELIEF-- YOU TRULY SAW THE HERD MY SON..AND ONE TIME, SO DID I... THE DAY BEFORE MY FATHER JOINED THE BUFFALOES IN THE SKY..." AS IMPLICATIONS BECAME CLEAR, THE YOUNG BRAVE FEARED EACH WORD... "MY SON, THE TIME HAS COME FOR ME TO GO AND JOIN THIS HERD.. AND THEN IT WILL BE UP TO YOU TO LEAD AS YEARS GO BY.. FOR SOON THE PEOPLE WILL BELIEVE IN BUFFALOES IN THE SKY!"-- THE FATHER GAVE THE SON HIS BOW, AND SAW HE UNDERSTOOD. THEN HE ROSE AND STIFFLY MADE HIS WAY INTO THE WOODS. THE WOMEN PAUSED AT MORNING'S WORK TO WATCH AND WONDER WHY THIS GOOD MAN'S SON SHAMED HIM WITH TALES IF BUFFALOES IN THE SKY! SOON WHEN THE SUN HAD RISEN HIGH, IT'S BRIGHTNESS DISAPPEARED! THE EARTH BEGAN TO TREMBLE, AND THE PEOPLE RAN IN FEAR! THE WIND BEGAN TO WHIP AND TEAR, AND THEY BEGAN TO CRY.. THEY THOUGHT, EACH ONE, 'CAN THIS BE FROM THE BUFFALOES IN THE SKY?'... AND WHEN THE WORSE WAS OVER, THE BRAVE WAS CALLED TO COME, TO TELL THEM WHERE THE THUNDERING SOUND OF HOOVES WAS COMING FROM! HE SLOWLY TURNED AND RAISED HIS ARM, AND POINTED VERY HIGH.. WHERE TWO FAMILIAR WARRIORS HUNTED BUFFALOES IN THE SKY.. THE VISION QUICKLY FADED, AND THEY TURNED TO HIM IN AWE. THEY NEVER QUESTIONED THEIR NEW CHIEF AGAIN OF THINGS HE SAW.... AND SO THEY TELL THE CHILDREN NOW, WHEN THUNDER MAKES THEM CRY.. 'DON'T FEAR, MY LITTLE ONES..IT'S ONLY BUFFALOES IN THE SKY'.

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