Yet we got to watch you or you'd all stampede,

Plungin' down some 'royo bank to die.

So—o, now, for still the shadows stay;

The moon is slow and steady;

The sun comes when he's ready.

Hee—ya, tammalalleday!

No use runnin' out to meet the mornin'.

Cows and men are foolish when the light grows dim,

Dreamin' of a land too far to see.

There, you dream, is wavin' grass and streams that brim