Drum

Safe in the cave, from the dangers of the day, from the dangers of being eaten by creatures, at night in the cave the people would bang rocks strike sticks, make fire, and the people would drum And like the neighbor wolves, one howled, too, at the moon And the people howled, too, at the moon and the people would drum Tales of the day, The dangers conveyed, of man's return from the creatures of danger, by the guarding of the gods, by the movement of the hands, by words, by fire, by the sound of the drum Safe in the cave