Gordon Lightfoot - The Pony Man

gordon lightfoot

the pony man

G C G
when it’s midnight on the meadow and the cats are in the shed
C D D7
and the river tells a story at the window by my bed
G C G
if you listen very closely be as quiet as you can
C D G
in the yard you’ll hear him it is the pony man .

G C G
we’re always there to greet him when he tumbles into town
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he leads a string of ponies some are white and some are brown
G C G
and they never seem to kick or bite they only want to play
C D G
and they live on candy apples instead of oats and hay .

G C G
and when we’re all assembled he gives a soft command
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and we climb aboard our ponies as in a row they stand
G C G
then down the road we gallop and across the fields we fly
C D G
and soon we all go sailing off into the midnight sky .

G C G
and as we gaily rock along beside a ripplin’ sea
C D D7
there’s tom ’n dick ’n sally and mary joe and me
G C G
and the pony man is leading cause he’s travelled here before
C D G
and he gives a whoop and a holler at mr . moon’s front door .

G C G
and as we stop to rest a while where the soda river glides
C D D7
up to the slip comes a pirate ship to take us for a ride
G C G
and the pony man’s the captain and the children are the crew
C D G
and we go in search of treasure and laugh the whole night through .

G C G
and when the hold is filled with gold and the sails begin to strain
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and the deck’s piled high with apple pie we head for port again
G C G
and down the whirling staircase so swift our ponies fly
C D G
and we’re safely in our beds again when the sunbeams kiss the sky .

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