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

Chorus:
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