Johnny Cash The Flint Arrowhead lyrics

While traveling this land from border to border and from sea to sea
There have a few occasions to leave the beaten path and to find the place
And quiet that's good for thought and just walking through a trackless forest
Or exploring ruins of the earliest settlers or walking along a creek bed

Hoping to find a relic such as a Tomahawk an axe
Or even an arrowhead left by a race of long since vanished Indians
There's a great thrill and it's a wonderful feeling to find a flint arrowhead

Over fields of new turned sod and in communion with my God
I walked alone in a furrow bed, I found an arrowhead chiseled from stone
I don't know how long ago some redman drew his bow on its last fight
Or did he drop it here, afraid white men were near to attack at night

I do know this one thing beyond all questioning it was made to kill
And proof of a master trade is in this arrowhead

He made fashioned with skill
That I inherited this ground is denied by this stone
I've found but when and by who

Come join me in my tracks then let's stop and look back
To the vale and through
In love and peace we'll see the shadows
And the trees and voices too

But quietly, slowly tread this home of the forgotten dead
Whose bones are dust
I'm proud that their craftsman's skill survives
The ages still left in my trust