Emmylou Harris – Ballad Of A Runaway Horse (Guitar)

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Say a prayer for the cowgirl her horse ran away

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She'll walk til she finds him her darling her stray

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But the rivers in flood and the roads are awash

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And the bridges break up in the panic of loss

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And there's nothing to follow nowhere to go

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He's gone like the summer gone like the snow

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And the crickets are breaking her heart with their song

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As the day caves in and the night is all wrong

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Did she dream was it he who went galloping past

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And bent down the fern broke open the grass

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And printed the mud with the well-hammered shoe

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That she nailed to his feet in the dreams of her youth

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And although he goes grazing a minute away

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She tracks him all night she tracks him all day

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And she's blind to his presence except to compare

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Her injury here with his punishment there

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Then at home on a branch on a high stream

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A Songbird sings out so suddenly

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And the sun is warm and the soft winds ride

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On a willow tree by the riverside

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All the world is sweet and the world is wide

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He's  there where the light and the darkness divide

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And the steam's coming off him he's huge and he's shy

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And he steps on the moon when he paws at the sky

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And he comes to her hand but he's not really tame

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He longs to be lost she longs for the same

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And he'll bolt and he'll plunge through the first open pass

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To roll and to feed in the sweet mountain grass

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Or he'll make a break for the high plateau

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Where there's nothing above and nothing below

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It's time for their burden the whip and the spur

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Will she ride with him or will he ride with her

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So she binds herself to her galloping steed

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And he binds himself to the woman in need

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And there is no space just left and right

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And there is no time but there is day and night

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And she leans on his neck and whispers low

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Whither thou goest I will go

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And they turn as one and they head for the plain

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No need for the whip or no need for the rein

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Now the clasp of this union who fastens it tight

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Who snaps it asunder the very next night

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Some say  it's him some say it's her

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Some say love's like smoke beyond all repair

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So my darling my darling just let it go by

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That old silhouette on the great western sky

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And I'll pick out a tune and they'll move right along

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And they're gone like smoke and the're gone like this song

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Say a prayer for the cowgirl