Now it was time to paint and dress for the dance. The four maidens and the sixteen horses all faced the sacred tepee. Black Road and Bear Sings then sang a song, and all others sang along with them, like this:

"Father, paint the earth on me. Father, paint the earth on me. Father, paint the earth on me.
A nation I will make over.
A two-legged nation I will make holy.
Father, paint the earth on me." -Black Elk Speaks, Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux.