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Songs of the Tewa, by Herbert Joseph Spinden, [1933], at sacred-texts.com


p. 80

XVIII
RAINS FOR THE HARVEST

Over there in your fields you have
Musk-melon flowers in the morning.
Over there in your fields you have
Corn-tassle flowers in the morning.
In your fields now the water bird sings
And here in your village the fogs
And the black clouds come massing.
They come here to see! They come here to see!
Mbe’e a-ha we-o-’e


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