Gordon Lightfoot

                      THE PONY MAN

             G (320003@1)                          C (x32010@1)              GWhen (320003@1)it's midnight on the meadow and the cats are in the shed
                        C (x32010@1)           D (xx0232@1)        D7And (xx0212@1)the river tells a story at the window by my bed
         G (320003@1)                       C (x32010@1)         G (320003@1)If you listen very closely be as quiet as you can
                    C (x32010@1)        D (xx0232@1)          G (320003@1)In the yard you'll hear him it is the pony man.
 
        G (320003@1)                                C (x32010@1)        GWe're (320003@1)always there to greet him when he tumbles into town
                       C (x32010@1)             D (xx0232@1)                D7 (xx0212@1)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.
 
      G (320003@1)                         C (x32010@1)           GAnd (320003@1)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 (320003@1)                          C (x32010@1)                G (320003@1) 
Then down the road we gallop and across the fields we fly
                      C (x32010@1)        D (xx0232@1)              G (320003@1)And soon we all go sailing off into the midnight sky.
 
    G (320003@1)                      C (x32010@1)              G (320003@1)And as we gaily rock along beside a ripplin' sea
                         C (x32010@1)      D (xx0232@1)         D7There's (xx0212@1)Tom 'n Dick 'n Sally and Mary Joe and me
          G (320003@1)                              C (x32010@1)          G (320003@1)      
And the pony man is leading cause he's travelled here before
                              C (x32010@1)    D (xx0232@1)                G (320003@1)And he gives a whoop and a holler at Mr. Moon's front door. 

    G (320003@1)                                    C (x32010@1)         G (320003@1)And as we stop to rest a while where the soda river glides
                          C (x32010@1)          D (xx0232@1)           D7 (xx0212@1)  
Up to the slip comes a pirate ship to take us for a ride
         G (320003@1)                              C (x32010@1)            G (320003@1) 
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.
 
     G (320003@1)                                        C (x32010@1)            GAnd (320003@1)when the hold is filled with gold and the sails begin to strain
                                 C (x32010@1)         D (xx0232@1)            D7 (xx0212@1)And the deck's piled high with apple pie we head for port again
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And down the whirling staircase so swift our ponies fly
                         C (x32010@1)        D (xx0232@1)                        GAnd (320003@1)we're safely in our beds again when the sunbeams kiss the sky.
 

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