ICE AGE TRAIL

to the tune of "Country Roads" (by John Denver)

lyrics by Steve Brown (1988)

Verse: Ancient ice age

the Pleistocene

Two Creeks Forest

Glacial Lake Wisconsin.

Life was cold then.

Colder in the hills

But sometimes warm enough

to produce meltout till

Chorus: Ice age trail

take me home

to the place

I belong

New Berlin, Valders Quarry,

take me home

Ice Age trail.

Verse: All my research,

no end in sight

driller's nightmare

the truck broke down last night.

Till or outwash

is it stratified?

Milky taste of meltwater,

silt grain in my eye.

Chorus: Ice age trail

take me home

to the place

I belong

New Berlin, Valders Quarry,

take me home

Ice Age Trail.

Bridge: I hear the ice in the morning as she calls me,

the drumlins remind me of that time long ago;

and walking down the trail I get a feeling that I

should have lived in the Pleistocene, the Pleistocene....