[ music: Robert Buck & Dennis Drew/lyric: Natalie Merchant ]. . dance to the sun. a kiss to the earth. embrace a stone. come the small black book. come the brandy cask. one strange disease. the well worded paper. signed by the drunken. hands of thieves. and suddenly. they were told to leave. as the snake uncoiled on a road. the length was eighty miles. wagons' weary horses. lead the feverish exiles. barefoot in the early snow. on a ridge. where they beheld their home. coarse and barren. not the haven. promised by the Father. Jaksa Chula Harjo. Jaksa Chula Harjo. Jaksa Chula Harjo **. the Red Sticks first and. the Dancing Ghosts were. pierced with arms of fire. and the weeping widows. left could not avenge. so the Western Star manifest its will. drove them clear into the Pacific O. gone the way of flesh. turned pale and died. by your god's decree. for he hated me. ** Cherokee name for Andrew Jackson. the 7th president of the U.S.A..