As Long As The Grass Shall Grow
“Let us know peace.
For as long as the moon shall rise,
For as long as the rivers shall flow,
For as long as the sun shall shine,
For as long as the grass shall grow,
Let us know peace.”
"As Long as the Grass Shall Grow was indeed written by Peter La Farge – who later wrote and recorded his own version of the song as The Senecas (As Long as The Grass Shall Grow) – and it concerns the contemporary loss of the indigenous Seneca nation land in Pennsylvania due to the construction of the Kinzua Dam in the early 1960s. The dam, built across the Allegheny River, caused the flood of the Senecas’ land, forcing them to move north, in Salamanca, NY, abandoning a land owned for centuries. " Reference
