Peace In The Valley (originally by Nashville Cast) – Gillian Welch
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Pulling into Douglas on a hot October night Dawn up above us, and there’s a moon on the right Just off the blacktop, there’s a sign along the road It’s a marker for the place where they got Geronimo
For peace in the valley, lay down his shield And surrendered to the white man hot on his heels Peace in the valley but oh, Geronimo You can’t raise up your children, watch them grow Without peace in the valley down below
He was a bonafide Indian chief East Arizona was his pride and keep Down through the Pecos, they tried to take him down ‘Til an hour from the border, he stopped and turned around
He cried “Peace in the valley!”, lay down his shield And surrendered to the white man hot on his heels Peace in the valley but oh, Geronimo You can’t raise up your children and watch them grow Without peace in the valley down below
Peace in the valley but oh, Geronimo You can’t raise up your children and watch them grow Without peace in the valley down below