Here where we stand there used to be a forest
A timber rising endlessly before us
We cleared away that God forsaken jungle
And in return the Indians adore usWhat was mud now is a highway
Reaching wide into a prairie
Horses run -- cattle are grazing
You would swear it was OklahomaDay by day dark is illuminated
God's mistake altered and uncreated
Wrong's made right left to the jungle pioneerSee in the field my little son and daughter
Not long ago that ground was underwater
Now you can see them walking with the cattle
Singing them songs before they go to slaughterThere are those who would appose us
Crying out,