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(R. Mc
Guinn, J. Levy)
Always alone,never with a herd
Prettiest mare I've ever seen,you'll have to take my word
I'm going to catch that horse if I canand when I do I'll give her my brand
Well I was up on Stony Ridgeafter this chestnut mare, been chasing her for weeks
Oh I'd catch a glimpse of her every once in a whiletaking her meal, bathing, fine lady
This one day I happen to be real close to herand I saw her standing over thereso I snuck up on her nice and easygot my rope outand I flung it in the air!CHORUSI'm going to catch that horse if I canand when I do I'll give her my brand
And we'll be friends for life
She'll be just like a wife
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 ridgehigher than I've ever been before
She's running along just fine'til she stops and something spooked herit's a sidewinder, all coiled and ready to strikeshe doesn't know what to do for a second,but then, she jumps off the edge, me holding on(
Canyon music!)
Above the hills, higher than eagles were glidingsuspended in the skyover the hillstraight for the sun we were ridingmy eyes were filled with lightbehind those black wallsbelow was a bottomless canyonfloating with no soundghosts far belowseemed to be suddenly risingexploding all around(
Chorus)
We were fallingdown this creviceabout about a mile down it seemand I looked down
And I see this red thing below us coming up real fastand it's our reflection that'sthis little pool of water about six feet wide and one foot deep
We're falling down right through it
We hit, we splashed it drythat's when I lost my holdand she got awaybut I'm gonna try and get her again some day(
Chorus)
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