sentinel dome (sakkadueh) Lyrics

Up on sentinel dome

See the valley below

Eight thousand feet high

Sixty million years old

Up on sentinel dome

Waiting for the moonrise

Eating crackers and cheese

And drinking red wine

Up on sentinel dome

There's an old Jeffrey pine

It died in a drought

And fell over in time

Up on sentinel dome

I dragged Mike on a hike

To distract from the pain

Weighing on his mind

Up on sentinel dome

You can see for miles

See the Milky Way

On a dark clear night

In a Miwok tongue

It had a different name

Till some white folk came

And took it away

Ain't that a shame

Up on "Sak'-ka-du-eh" (c.f., Powers, 1877)