Michael Martin Murphey – See How All The Horses Come Dancing (Guitar)

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As recorded by Michael Martin Murphey (From the 1976 Album FLOWING FREE FOREVER) [Intro] Em D Cmaj7 D Em D Cmaj7 D Em [Verse 1]
             D               Cmaj7    D Em
"Back Elk is sick and may be dying,"

         D              Cmaj7   D
Said the old man to his wife

Em            D           Cmaj7    D
"Even now the Holy Man is singing

                          Em
Mat Wakan-Tanka spare his life."
[Verse 2]
              D                Cmaj7       D
Black Elk was trance-like in a death sleep

       Em              D                Cmaj7  D
He was dreaming of two men with flaming spears

    Em                  D                    Cmaj7
Who took him to a white plain high above the clouds

D                       Em
Left him alone and disappeared

D                             G
 And then a bay horse stood before him

    D                                    G
And said, "Now my life history you shall see
[Chorus]
                Bm          C       Am
See how all the horses come dancing

G        Bm       Em       C                 G
Dancing, dancing, dancing, dancing, wild and free

Bm       Em       C                 G     C  G  C
Dancing, dancing, dancing, wild and free."
[Verse 3]
Em                       D                  Cmaj7        D
Twelve black horses with manes of lightning in the night

     Em                       D                           Cmaj7     D
With twelve white horses with white geese circling, thundering past

    Em                        D                   Cmaj7
And twelve sorrel horses with eyes like stars and manes of light

D                                              Em
Twelve buckskins with horns on their heads and manes of grass

                D                Cmaj7
Then the horses formed a line of four abreast

    Em                        D         Cmaj7     D
The bay horse turned his head West and he neighed

        Em             D                      Cmaj7
And the sky was like a storm of thundering horses

D                          Em
 And Little Black Elk was afraid

D                                 G
 Then the horses changed into all creatures

     D                                 G
Into every from of life that there can be
[Out-Chorus]
                Bm          C       Am
See how all the horses come dancing

          G        Bm       Em       C                 G
They come dancing, dancing, dancing, dancing, wild and free

Bm       Em
Dancing, dancing