HISTIM YANHI Frank Sorgea 3/2013
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There’s a mountain rising up from the valley
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In the land where the many rivers flow
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You can’t see it very far – But it is my pointing star
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Calling me back to my mountain home
[Verse 1]
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Now I’ve traveled far away from this valley
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Many are the places I have roamed
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I have seen the Northern Lights – spent some cold and lonely nights
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Longing for the friends I left back home
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But always on my homeward track - A load is lifted off my back
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Just as soon as I see that rocky dome.
[CHORUS]
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There’s a mountain rising up from the valley
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In the land where the many rivers flow
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You can’t see it very far – But it is my pointing star
C G C F C
Calling me back to my mountain home
[Verse 2]
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Well the Maidu People called it Histum Yanhi
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The land where the spirit world resides
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The land was shared by all – through the winter and the fall
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(C) When the rivers rose to flood the valley floor
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The Mountain did provide and the Peoples they did thrive
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On that Middle Mountain I now call my home
[Verse 3]
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So if you’re ever traveling through the Northern valley
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Where the Yuba and the Feather Rivers run
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Look to the East and you will see the vast Sierras
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And if you look West toward the setting sun
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You’ll (C) behold that mountain known as Histim Yahni
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Now you and Histim Yahni will be one
[Chorus]
C F C
There’s a mountain rising up from the valley
F G
In the land where the many rivers flow
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You can’t see it very far – But it is my pointing star
C G C F C
Calling me back to my mountain home
[Outro]