Ballad Of The Runaway Horse Chords by Rob Wasserman

_ Say a prayer for the [D] cowgirl _
_ [G] Her horse ran away
And [C] she'll walk [G] till she finds [C] him
_ Darling her stray, but [G] the rivers in [D] flood _ [G] and the roads are washed _ [D] and the bridges
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break up
[D] _ _ in [C] the _ panic [G] of loss
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And [Gm] there's nothing _ to follow
_ [G] _ _ Nowhere [D] to go
_ _ [C] He's gone [G] like the summer
_ [C] Gone like the snow [G] and the crickets [D] are breaking [G] her heart with their song
[D] as the day _ [A] caves in
[D] _ _ _ And [C] the night is [G] all wrong
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Did she dream?
[D] Was it he [G] who went galloping _ [A] past and [C] _ bent down the fir?
_ broke _ open the grass
_ [G] And printed the mud with the well-hammered shoes
[D] That she nailed to his speed
_ _ _ [C] in the dreams of her [G] youth
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And although _ he goes grazing a minute away _
[A] _ She [C] tracks him all night.
She tracks him all day
_ _ [G] Blind _ to his _ presence except to _ _ compare _ [D] her _ [A] injury _
_ _ [D] With [G] _ [C] his _ punishment [G] _ there _ _ _
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then at _ home on a branch on the highest tree _
[A] a
_ [C] _ song bird sings out so
_ Suddenly _ how [G] the sun is warm _ _ and the soft winds ride
_ [D] on a willow tree
_ _ _ _ _ [C] by the _ [G] riverside _ _ _ _ _
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_ Are the world is sweet _ _ and the world is wide _
[Bm] And [C] he's there where the light and the darkness divide _ _ [G] and the seams
[D] Coming [G] off him.
He's _ huge and he's shy and he steps _ on the moon
_ _ _ When [C] he paws at [G] the sky _ _ _
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_ [G] And he comes to her hand _
_ But he's not really tame _
_ [C] He longs to be lost
She longs for the same
_ _ [G] Bolt _ and he'll plunge through the first open pass
_ [D] to roll [A] and to feed
_ [D] _ _ _ [C] in the sweet [G] mountain _ grass _ _
Or _ _ _ _ _ _ _ he'll make a break
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_ [G] for the _ high plateau _
[Bm] _ [C] Where there's nothing _ above
_ on nothing
_ Below _ _ [G] it's time for their burden the whip and the spur
_ [D] Will she ride?
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[D] _ _ _ _ I [C] will he ride [G] with her _ _ _ _
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So she _ binds herself _ to her galloping steed
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_ [C] and he binds [G] _
himself [C] to _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ [D] And there is no space _
_ [G] Just left and right [D] and there _ is [A] no time
_ [D] _ _ _ [C] But there's day [G] and night _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ and she leans on his neck _ and whispers low _ _
_ _ [C] _ with _ I
_ _ _ _ _ _ Will go and they [G] turn as one _ _ and they head [Gm] for the plane
_ [D] No need for the whip _ _ _ or [C] no need for [Gm] the rain
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_ [G] Now the class for this union _ who fastens it tight _
[A] _ [C] Who _ snaps it asunder the very next night?
[G] _ Some say it's him _ some say it's her _ _ _ _
[E] Some [D] say _ loves like smoke
_ _ _ _ [C] Beyond all [G] repair _ _ _ _
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_ So my darling [D] my darling [G] just let it go by _ _ [C] that old _
Silhouette on the great western sky [G] and I'll pick out
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[G] And they'll move right along [Em] and [D] they're gone _ _ _
_ Smoke _ and [C] they're gone like [G] this song
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