She goes a running after midnight
Feet pounding on the cool Kentucky clay
Got to cross the big Ohio
Freedom waters for a tired, hungry slave
She's a night walker
A dead man talker
A Black-eyed girl running from the grave
Mother's milk and heart a pounding
She goes running cross the cool Kentucky clay

Just a poor girl born in Galilee
Stayed in Bethlehem then lit out for a while
Heard the voices of the angels
Sent her running down the delta of the Nile
She's a word-staker
A man's-law-breaker
Virgin mother walks 400 miles
Ninety days and more a stranger
She goes running down the delta of the Nile

She sees the Dipper in the low sky
Holds a faded paper tight within her hand
Desert skies are mighty lonesome
If you're headed for El Norte Rio Grande
She's a dream chaser
A border town racer
Mestizo girl alone upon the land
Forty days a proud new mother
She's headed for El Norte Rio Grande

And it's three rivers of promise to cross
Three mothers in the wilds all but lost
Some are praised and some are scorned
Some are saved, some forlorn
Some find a bed, some find a crown of thorns

Thanks to d