Wylie & The Wild West - Equus Caballus lyrics

rate me

Words: Joel Nelson, Music:Wylie Gustafson (Two Medicine Music) BMI

I have run on middle fingernail through Eolithic morning

And IÂ've thundered down the coach road with RevolutionÂ's warning

I have carried countless errant knights who never found the grail

I have strained before the caissons, IÂ've moved the nationÂ's mail

IÂ've made knights of lowly tribesmen, kings from ranks of peons

IÂ've given pride and arrogance to riding men for eons

IÂ've grazed among the lodges, teepees and the yurts

Felt the sting of driving whips, lashes, spurs and quirts

I am roguish- I am flighty- inbred and lowly

IÂ'm a nightmare gone wild I am

Gallant and exalted- stately and noble

IÂ'm awesome- I am grand I am

The Horse

I have suffered gross indignities from users and winners

IÂ've felt the touch of kindness from losers and sinners

I have given for the cruel hand and given for the kind

Heaved a sigh at Appomattox when surrender had been signed

I can be as tough as hardened steel- fragile as a flower

I know not my endurance I know not my own power

I have died with heart exploded beneath the cheering stands

Calmly stood below the hanging noose of vigilante bands

I am roguish- I am flighty- inbred and lowly

IÂ'm a nightmare gone wild- I amÂ…

Gallant and exalted- stately and noble

IÂ'm awesome- I am grand- I am

the Horse

So IÂ'll run on middle fingernail until the curtain closes

IÂ'll win for you your triple crown IÂ'll wear for you your roses

Toward you who took my freedom IÂ've no malice or remorse

IÂ'll endure IÂ'll last forever I am

The Horse