Emmylou Harris

Ballad Of A Runaway Horse

Emmylou Harris

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Ballad Of A Runaway Horse

	  		
B 
Say a prayer for the cowgirl her horse ran away 
       E 
She'll walk til she finds him her darling her stray 
        B 
But the rivers in flood and the roads are awash 
        F#                               B 
And the bridges break up in the panic of loss 
B 
And there's nothing to follow nowhere to go 
     E 
He's gone like the summer gone like the snow 
        B 
And the crickets are breaking her heart with their song 
       F#                                B 
As the day caves in and the night is all wrong 
B 
Did she dream was it he who went galloping past 
    E 
And bent down the fern broke open the grass 
    B 
And printed the mud with the well-hammered shoe 
         F#                                       B 
That she nailed to his speed in the dreams of her youth 
B 
And although he goes grazing a minute away 
    E 
She tracks him all night she tracks him all day 
          B 
And she's blind to his presence except to compare 
    F#                              B 
Her injury here with his punishment there 
        E 
Then at home on a branch on a high stream 
  B 
A Songbird sings out so suddenly 
        E 
And the sun is warm and the soft winds ride 
     B                  F#     B 
On a willow tree by the riverside 
B 
All the world is sweet and the world is wide 
      E 
He's  there where the light and the darkness divide 
         B 
And the steam's coming off him he's huge and he's shy 
       F#                                    B 
And he steps on the moon when he paws at the sky 
B 
And he comes to her hand but he's not really tame 
   E 
He longs to be lost she longs for the same 
          B 
And he'll bolt and he'll plunge through the first open pass 
  F#                                      B 
To roll and to feed in the sweet mountain grass 
B 
Or he'll make a break for the high plateau 
              E 
Where there's nothing above and nothing below 
     B 
It's time for their burden the whip and the spur 
         F#                                 B 
Will she ride with him or will he ride with her 
      E 
So she binds herself to her galloping steed 
       B 
And he binds himself to the woman in need 
          E 
And there is no space just left and right 
    B                    F#               B 
And there is no time but there is day and night 
B 
And she leans on his neck and whispers low 
E 
Whither thou goest I will go 
         B 
And they turn as one and they head for the plain 
   F#                                   B 
No need for the whip or no need for the rein 
B 
Now the clasp of this union who fastens it tight 
   E 
Who snaps it asunder the very next night 
     B 
Some say  it's him some say it's her 
         F#                             B 
Some say love's like smoke beyond all repair 
B 
So my darling my darling just let it go by 
     E 
That old silhouette on the great western sky 
         B 
And I'll pick out a tune and they'll move right along 
            F#                                        B 
And they're gone like smoke and the're gone like this song 
      B 
Say a prayer for the cowgirl 
		  

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