Drums Along the Cuyahoga

Verse 1

Down along the canal where the water runs slow

Valley View holds a story only old timers know

Before the locks and the barges came through

A people lived and danced by the Cuyahoga too

Verse 2

You can stand by the towpath and listen real still

Hear the drums a-drumming on the far off hill

They were roaming this valley long before me and you

Singing songs to the river like the river sang too

Chorus

Can you hear the drums a-drumming

Can you hear them call your name

Can you feel the old ones coming

Back to where they came

By the river by the valley

Where the water winds and bends

Can you hear the drums a-drumming

They'll be drumming to the end

Verse 3

There's a mound in the meadow where the orchard grows

And the corn and the pumpkins stood in crooked rows

Washers Side Road ran right past that field

Where a market sold the harvest that the good earth yield

Pre-Chorus

So stop at Oxbow Orchard

When the summer sun is high

Buy a basket of the sweet corn

And just let the hours fly

Chorus

Can you hear the drums a-drumming

Can you hear them call your name

Can you feel the old ones coming

Back to where they came

By the river by the valley

Where the water winds and bends

Can you hear the drums a-drumming

They'll be drumming to the end

Verse 4

Every month in the summer they pick and they strum

Bluegrass on the porch and the folks come

There's a girl there who works like a man in the sun

Looks like an angel when the long day is done

Pre-Chorus

She'll take time to talk to you

Ask you how you been

Treats every stranger like a long lost friend

Chorus

Can you hear the drums a-drumming

Can you hear them call your name

Can you feel the old ones coming

Back to where they came

By the river by the valley

Where the water winds and bends

Can you hear the drums a-drumming

They'll be drumming to the end

Bridge

Look across from the market stand

Put a hand up to your brow

Think of who was here before

And who is here right now

Chorus

Can you hear the drums a-drumming

Can you hear them call your name

Can you feel the old ones coming

Back to where they came

By the river by the valley

Where the water winds and bends

Can you hear the drums a-drumming

They'll be drumming to the end

Post-Chorus

Drums a-drumming

Drums a-drumming

Down in the valley

Drums a-drumming