(12 str gtr) intro D5 F#5 B5 G5 E5 A5 -----2-------2-------2---0-----------3-------3-------0-------0--- | ---3---3---2---2---3---3---3---3---0---0---0---0---0---0---3---2- | -----------------------------4----------------------------------- | -0---------------4----------------------------------------------- | ---------4-----------------------------------------------0------- | ---------------------------------3-------2-------0--------------- | D5 F#5 B5 G5 B5 A5 always alone never with a herd D5 F#5 B5 prettiest mare ive ever seen G5 B5 A5 youll have to take my word chorus G5 B5 E5 A5 D5 F#5 B5 A5 im gonna catch that horse if I can G5 B5 E5 A5 D5 F#5 B5 A5 and when i do ill give her my brand G5 B5 E5 and well be friends for life G5 B5 E5 shell be just like a wife G5 B5 E5 A5 D5 F#5 B5 A5 im gonna catch that horse if I can verses Well I was up on Stony Ridge after this chestnut mare I'd been chasin' her for weeks now. Oh, I'd catch a little glimpse of her every once in a while; she'd be off takin' her meal, or bathin'; she was a real fine lady! This one day I saw her standin' over there in a clearing, so I snuck up to her nice and easy. I waited for the wind to blow just the right way, and I got my rope out and I flung it in the air! Well I got her, and I'm pullin' on her, she's pullin' back like a mule tryin' to climb up a ladder. I take this chance and I jump up on her. Danged if I don't land right on top of her the first time. Well she takes off, runnin' up on to that ridge, higher than I've ever been before. We're runnin' along just fine, and then she sees a sidewinder, all coiled up ready to strike. Well that spooks her, and she jumps off the edge ...me holdin' on! And we were falling down this crevice, about a mile down there I'd say! I look down and I see this red thing below us. Turned out to be our reflection in a little pool of water, about six feet wide, and only one foot deep, and we're comin' down at it! Finally we hit and we splashed that pool dry. Well that's when I lost my hold and she got away. But I'm never gonna' give up, I'm gonna' get her again some day! bridge D5 C5 E5 -----2-----------2---------------0----------------- | ---1---1---1---1---1---1-------1---1--------------- | ---------2-----------2----------------------------- | -0-----------0-----------------------0------------- | -------------------------0-2-3---------3-2-----0--- | -------------------------------------------2-3---0- | above the clouds higher than eagles were gliding over the moon straight for the sun we were riding behind us black walls below us a bottomless canyon G5 D5 ---------3-----------3-----------2-------3-2-0-------0- | -------0---0---0---1---1---0---3---3---3-------3---3--- | -------------------------------------------------2----- | -------------0-----------0---0-------0----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------- | -0-2-3-----------3------------------------------------- | suspended in the sky my eyes were filled with light floating with no sound D5 C5 E5 -----2-----------2---------------0----------------- | ---1---1---1---1---1---1-------1---1--------------- | ---------2-----------2----------------------------- | -0-----------0-----------------------0------------- | -------------------------0-2-3---------3-2-----0--- | -------------------------------------------2-3---0- | gulls far below seemed to be suddenly rising G5 B5 A5 ---------3---------------2--0------------ | -------0---0---0-------3----0------------ | ---------------------4------2------------ | -------------0-----4--------2------------ | ----------------------------0------------ | -0-2-3-----------3----------0------------ | exploding all around
