Gordon Lightfoot — The Pony Man Chords

Gordon Lightfoot

                      THE PONY MAN

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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
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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
                      C          D                G 
And soon we all go sailing off into the midnight sky.
 
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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
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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
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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.
 
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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
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And down the whirling staircase so swift our ponies fly
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And we're safely in our beds again when the sunbeams kiss the sky.
 

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