GORDON LIGHTFOOT - The Pony Man lyrics
rate meWhen it's midnight on the meadow<br>And the cats are in the shed<br>And the river tells a story<br>At the window by my bed<br>If you listen very closely<br>Be as quiet as you can<br>In the yard you'll hear him<br>It is the pony man<br>We're always there to greet him<br>When he tumbles into town<br>He leads a string of ponies<br>Some are white and some are brown<br>And they never seem to kick or bite<br>They only want to play<br>And they live on candy apples<br>Instead of oats and hay<br><br>And when we're all assembled<br>He gives a soft command<br>And we climb aboard our ponies<br>As in a row the stand<br>Then down the road we gallop<br>And across the fields we fly<br>And soon we all go sailing off<br>Into the midnight sky<br><br>And as we gaily rock along<br>Beside a ripplin' sea<br>There's tom 'n dick 'n sally<br>And mary joe and me<br>And the pony man is leading<br>Cause he's travelled here before<br>And he gives a whoop and a holler<br>At mr. moon's front door<br><br>And as we stop to rest a while<br>Where the soda river glides<br>Up to the slip comes a pirate ship<br>To take us for a ride<br>And the pony man's the captain<br>And the children are the crew<br>And we go in search of treasure<br>And laugh the whole night through<br><br>And when the hold is filled with gold<br>And the sails begin to strain<br>And the deck's piled high with apple pie<br>We head for port again<br>And down the whirling starcase<br>So swift our ponies fly<br>And we're safely in our beds again<br>When the sunbeams kiss the sky<br><br>When it's midnight on the meadow<br>And the cats are in the shed<br>And the river tells a story<br>At the window by my bed<br>If you listen very closely<br>Be as quiet as you can<br>In the yard you'll hear him<br>It is the pony man
