TATANKA MAN

TATANKA MAN

Take Ten
on the plains of Kansas
you Tatanka
a hundred years lo.

Oh, where'd you go
Buffalo.

Time has swept
your feet from the plains;
monuments now stand
and paintings roam
where sabers once swung
and rifles barked
over fiddles of Jim Crow.

To there you go
Buffalo.

Thunder Man's
dark wooly hair ties
to African lands;
you legendary soldiers
Buffalo.

Now I too see, dust on the prairie
from galloping steeds
chanting to the bugler's charge,
as this day I am with you
I am also destined to fade that way
just, not today.

Until then my friends
ride Tatanka, ride
to that time when, akin...

we "Take Ten."