• Song:

    The Pony Man

  • Artist:

    Gordon Lightfoot

  • Album:

    Songbook (disc 2)

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When it's midnight on the meadow and the cats are in the shed
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And the river tells a story at the window by my bed
         G5                         C5           G5 
If you listen very closely be as quiet as you can
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In the yard you'll hear him it is the pony man.
 
        G5                                  C5          G5
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
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And they never seem to kick or bite they only want to play
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And they live on candy apples instead of oats and hay.
 
      G5                           C5             G5
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
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Then down the road we gallop and across the fields we fly
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And soon we all go sailing off into the midnight sky.
 
    G5                        C5                G5 
And as we gaily rock along beside a ripplin' sea
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There's Tom 'n Dick 'n Sally and Mary Joe and me
          G5                                C5            G5        
And the pony man is leading cause he's travelled here before
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And he gives a whoop and a holler at Mr. Moon's front door. 

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And as we stop to rest a while where the soda river glides
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Up to the slip comes a pirate ship to take us for a ride
         G5                                C5              G5   
And the pony man's the captain and the children are the crew
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And we go in search of treasure and laugh the whole night through.
 
     G5                                          C5              G5
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
     G5                               C5               G5     
And down the whirling staircase so swift our ponies fly
                         C5          D5                          G5
And we're safely in our beds again when the sunbeams kiss the sky.
 

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