Chords for Ballad of a runaway horse - a cowgirls prayer

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Say a prayer for the cowgirl, her horse ran away
[F] She walked till she finds him, her darling horse Trey
[C] But the river's in flood and the roads are washed
And the [G] bridges break _ up in a panic [C] of _ _ loss
_ _ And there's nothing to follow, nowhere to go
[F] He's gone like the summer, gone like the snow
And [C] the crickets are breaking her heart with their song
[Em] As the [G] day caves _ in and the night is [C] all _ wrong
_ _ _ Did she dream, was it he, who went galloping past?
[F]
Bent down the fern, broke open the grass
[C] And printed the mud with the well-helmed shoe
[G] The Jeanette of his speed, _ in the dreams of [C] her youth
_ _ _ _ And although he goes grazing a minute away
[F] She tracks him all night, she tracks him all day
[C] And she's blind to his presence
Except to compare [G] her injury _ here
With his [C] punishment _ _ _ there
_ _ [F]
Then at home, on a branch, on a high [C] stream
A songbird sings out so suddenly
[F] And the sun is warm and a soft wind
[Am] Runs the willow tree _ [G] _ _ by the [C]
river's _ _ side _ _
Oh, the world is sweet and the world is [F] white
He's there where the light and the darkness divide
[C]
The steam's coming off him, he's suit and he's shy
[G] And he steps on the moon when he [C] paws at the sky
_ _ _ And he comes to her hand, but he's not really tame
[F] He longs to be lost, she longs for the same
[C] And he'll bolt and he'll plunge through the first open path
[G] To roll and to feed in the sweet [C] mountain _ _ _ grass
_ Oh, he'll make a break for the high plateau
[F] But there's nothing above and nothing below
[C] It's time for their burden, the whip and the spur
[G] Will she ride with him, or will he [C] ride with her? _ _
_ _ _ [F] So she binds herself to a galloping [C] steed
And he binds himself to the woman in need
[F] And there's no space, just left at [C] hand
There is no _ [G] time, [A] but there is [C] day and night _ _ _ _
_ And she leans on his neck and whispers,
Lo, [F] _ where the law goes, I will go
[C] And they turn as one and they head for the plain
[G] No need for the _ whip, or no need [C] for the rake _ _ _ _ _
Nor the clasp of his union, who fastens it tight
[F] Who snaps it to sunder the very next [D]
[C] night
Some say it's him, some say it's her
[G] Some say love's like smoke beyond [C] all repair
_ _ _ _ _ So my darling, my darling, just let it go by
[F] Nuts and wet on the great western sky
[C] And I pick out a tune and they move right along
And [G] they're gone like _ smoke
And they're gone [C] like this _ _ song
_ Say a prayer for the _ _ cowgirl _ _ _ _