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From:
[email protected] (Len Moskowitz)
Subject: CRD: Chestnut Mare (The Byrds)
Chestnut Mare (R. McGuinn, J. Levy)
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Always alone,
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never with a herd
Prettiest mare I ve ever seen,
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you ll have to take my word
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I m going to catch that horse if I can
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and when I do I ll give her my brand
Well I was up on Stony Ridge
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after this chestnut mare, been chasing her for weeks
Oh I d catch a glimpse of her every once in a while
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taking her meal, bathing, fine lady
This one day I happen to be real close to her
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and I saw her standing over there
so I snuck up on her nice and easy
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got my rope out
and I flung it in the air!
CHORUS
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I m going to catch that horse if I can
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and when I do I ll give her my brand
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And we ll be friends for life
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She ll be just like a wife
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I m going to catch that horse if I can
And I got her and I m pulling on her
And she s pulling back like this mule going up a ladder
And I take a choice and I jump right up on her
Damned if I don t land right on top of her
And she takes off, running up onto the ridge
higher than I ve ever been before
She s running along just fine
til she stops and something spooked her
it s a sidewinder, all coiled and ready to strike
she doesn t know what to do for a second,
but then, she jumps off the edge, me holding on
(Canyon music!)
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Above the hills, higher than eagles were gliding
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suspended in the sky
over the hill
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straight for the sun we were riding
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my eyes were filled with light
behind those black walls
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below was a bottomless canyon
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floating with no sound
ghosts far below
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seemed to be suddenly rising
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exploding all around
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We were falling
down this crevice
about about a mile down it seem
and I looked down
And I see this red thing below us coming up real fast
and it s our reflection that s
this little pool of water about six feet wide and one foot deep
We re falling down right through it
We hit, we splashed it dry
that s when I lost my hold
and she got away
but I m gonna try and get her again some day
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Len Moskowitz
[email protected]