For Califia - Alice Wallace

The Queen of California lays her weapons down

Says, «We're weary of the war so just let it be done

«You can do now as you will and put me in the ground

«Call it progress, call it conquest to build you cities on»

«But take heed when you bury me

«For you should know that I’m a seed

«And what you try to hide away

«Will only rise again someday»

They say the Queen of California married a soldier man

And for that happy ever-after gave up all she’d ever been

That’s how stories often go written by the ones that win

But if you’re listening at all you hear her on the wind

«Take heed when you bury me

«For you should know that I’m a seed

«And what you try to hide away

«Will only rise again someday»

«Take heed when you bury me

«For you should know that I’m a seed

«And what you try to hide away

«Will only rise again someday»