Ballad of the Runaway Horse Chords by Jennifer Warnes

[Gm] Say a prayer for the cowgirl _
Her horse ran away [C]
and she'll walk [G] till she finds him her darling
stray, but the rivers in flood and the roads are awash and the bridges
_ [F#m] break [Bm] up in [C] the panic [G] of loss _ and _ _ _ _ _
There's nothing to follow
_ _ Nowhere to go _
He's gone like the summer
_ Gone like the snow and the crickets [D] are breaking her heart with their song as the day
_ [A] caves in [D] _ _ [G] and
The night is all _ wrong _
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Did she dream was it he who went galloping past?
_ bent down the fern [C] broke open the grass
[G] And printed the mud with the well [Bm]-hammered shoes that she [D] nailed to his speed
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dreams of [G] her youth
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_ although he goes grazing a minute away
She [C] tracks him all night.
She tracks him all day
[G] blind to his presence
except to compare [D] her injury _ _
here
with [C] his _ [G] punishment there _ _
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Then at home on a branch on the highest tree _
[C] his song
Bird sings out so _ suddenly
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All the sun is warm _ and the soft winds ride on a [D] willow tree _ _ by [C] the _ [G] _ _ _ Riverside
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All the world is sweet _ and the world is wide
He's [C] there where the light in the darkness
Divide [G] and the steams coming off him.
He's huge and he's shy and he [D] steps [A] on the moon
_ [D] _ when [C] he paws at the [G] sky _ _
And _ _ _ _ [D] _
[G] he comes to her hand
But he's not really tame _
He longs to be lost
[C] She longs for the [Am] same and [G] he'll bolt and he'll plunge to the first open pass
[E] [G] to roll [A] and feed
[D] _ _ [C] In the [G] sweet mountain [D] grass _
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Or he'll make a break [D] _ _
for the [G] high plateau _
Where there's nothing above
No, nothing _ below
It's time [D] for the burden [G] the whip and the spur
[D] Will she ride with him?
_ _ Will he ride with [G] her? _ _ _
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So she binds herself to her galloping steed
And he binds [C] himself to the woman in need and there [G] is no space
Just left and right [Bm] and there is [C#] no [D] time
But [C] there's day [G] and _ night
_ _ And _ _ she leans on his neck and whispers low _ _
_ [C] Whither thou goest I
Will go [G] and they turn as [D] one _ [G] and they head for the [D] plane
No need [A] for the whip
[D] _ No, [C] no need for [G] the rain
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[G] Now _ _ _ _ the clasp of this union [D] _
[G] who fastens it tight _
[C] Who snaps it [D#] asunder [D#m] the very [C] next night?
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_ [G] Some say it's him [F#]
some say it's [C] her
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Some [D] say [C] loves [Am] like _ [D] smoke
[F#] _ _ beyond all [D] repair
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[G] So my darling my darling just let it go [C] by
That old silhouette on the great western [A] sky
And I'll pick out a tune and [B] they'll move right _ along
[A] And they're gone like _ smoke
_ And they're gone like this song _ _
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