The Island Lyrics - Ol' Glory - Jj Grey & Mofro

So many things you've seen 

So many stories long forgotten 

So many deeds between 

Shouting out across the bottom Beneath a ghostly twilight 

Her bosom filled with shining stars 

Her secrets sing down through the ages 

As bright as lightning bugs in jars 

All beneath the canopy 

of ageless oaks whose secrets keep 

Forever in her beauty 

This island is my home 

Her rolling hills by hands were built 

by natives who were never found 

The only hints left of their passing 

are ancient shells that ghost the ground 

Bone white they tell a story 

of all the slaves who graced her shores 

of cotton fields so long plowed under 

a jungle now upon her stores 

All beneath the canopy 

of ageless oaks whose secrets keep 

Forever in her beauty 

This island is my home 

All beneath the canopy 

of ageless oaks whose secrets keep 

Forever in her beauty, ah in her beauty 

This island is my home