Let the rivers rock you like a cradle   Climb to the treetops, little child, if you're able   Always let your hands tie a knot across the table   Come and touch the things you cannot feel      Fold your fingertips, girl, and find where I can't hold you   Let the sun ray fall and let the dewey ground unfold you   I know someday you'll sing to me the words I've just told you   If all the things you feel ain't what they seem to be   Don't you mind me girl, 'cause I ain't really nothin' but a dream      I hold some grapes up to the sun   Flavor breaks and bursts and rolls upon my tongue   Eager tongues, we'll always taste our strife   Fill up our lungs with seeds of life   You come and taste and smell the waters of our times      Close your lips, child, so softly I might kiss you   Let your flower perfume out and let the winds come and caress you   As I walk this garden I am hoping I don't miss you   The things you taste and smell ain't what they seem   Don't you mind me girl, I guess I'm nothin' but a walking dream      The sun and moon both are right   We'll see them soon through all our days and night   But the colors I see in your eyes are fiery bright   I swear they blind the heavens with all their light   Come and see what your eyes cannot see      Close your eyes, child and look while I show you   Let your mind go reeling out and let the breezes just blow you   Someday we'll meet again and suddenly I'll know you   All the things that you see ain't what they seem to be   Now don't mind me I ain't nothin' but a dream      A mockingbird sings each different song   Each song has wings and won't stay long   Those who hear him think he's doing wrong   While the church bell and school bell toll their one note song   Come hear where your ears cannot hear      Close your ears child and listen while I tell you   Follow the darkest night, the sounds they may impel you   Even the song I'm singing may disturb or serve to quell you   All the sounds you hear aren't what they seem to be   Don't you mind me girl, oh, I ain't nothing but a dream      If you can follow, girl, follow, girl   If you can follow, girl, follow