I Paddle My Canoe

Oh, I don't like the look of the look of today A great grey cloud is coming our way So I move through the streets on my own A-huffing and a-puffing and feeling so alone O Grandfather, Grandfather Will you wake up? Will you take up these threads? O Grandmother, Grandmother I am walking on such thin ice I wonder how you feel? And a fire is burning in the fireplace And the windows crackle with rain Feels so part of my place So I leave my sleeping ancients And I walk down the steps And I move to the edge of the forest Where I lay my heaviness... Oh, where is my sweet puppy? Oh, there you are You're never far behind Sometimes he seems like a little lamb So I push off from the shore I press my face against the watery place I push off from the shore My sweet dog and you I paddle my canoe Across the water and home to you.