Robert Earl Keen – Black Baldy Stallion (Guitar)

Em                              D
Slidin' down the canyon on the Black Baldy Stallion

              C
Through the rocks and the ridges of the cold dark night

Em                               D
Shinin' like a diamond from the belt of Orion

   Am                    C
Is it your imagination, is the end in sight?

Em                                   D
From the top of the mountain to the edge of the water

     A                         C                      Em              
You can hear her singin' softly so you spring to the order  

        D                                         A
Of the song she was singin' the first time you saw her

   C                                          G
The years melt away as you ride toward the border.

           F#m            Am         C        G
Such a long, long way to ride

D                          E      C    G
Just to hear her say your name

D                         Am   D   C   D   C
When you reach the other side 

D               G
You won't leave her again.

Em                                 D
It's a resonating wonder how you've never knuckled under

Am               Em                    C
To the Elders of the village on that early Easter mornin'

Em                            D
Cause you never broke your promises and bonding her is all

    A
there is

Em                       C               G
Ridin' through the river in the fiery dawnin'.

D                         Am
Such a long, long way to ride

D                    Am    C    G
Just to hear her say your name

D                         Am   C    C
When you reach the other side

   D                 G
You won't leave her again.

Em                          D
Sittin' in the cafe on the corner of the plaza

Am                        C
She's openin' the letter you could not deliver

Em                           D
As the Black Baldy Stallion riderlessly passes

Am                                           G
Gleamin' in the sun drippin' water from the river

D                         Am
Such a long, long way to ride

D                    Am   C    G
Just to hear her say your name

D                        Am   C 
When you reach the other side

D                     G
You won't leave her again.

    D                   Am    C    G
... a long, long way to ride

    D                     A   D    G
Just to hear her say your name

  D                       Am    C    C
When you reach the other side

D                    G      Em
You won't leave her again.

D                    G    Em
You won't leave her again.