The Pony Man

Performed by Michael Murphey

Written by Gordon Lightfoot

from the album "The Horse Legends" 1997

Warner Western 9362-46584-9

 

When it's midnight on the meadow

And the cats are in the shed

And the river tells a story at the window by my bed

And if you listen very closely

Be as quiet as you can

In the yard you'll hear him

It is the Pony Man!

 

And we're always there to greet him

When he tumbles into town

And he leads a string of ponies

Some are white and some are brown

And they never seem to kick or bite

They always want to play

And they live on candy apples

Instead of oats and hay

 

And when we are assembled

He gives us our commands

They climb aboard our ponies

Then down the road we gallop

 

And across the fields we fly

Soon we all go sailing off into the midnight sky

And as we gaily rock along beside the rippling sea

There's Tom and Dick and Sally and Mary Jo and Me

And the Pony Man is leading

Cause he's traveled here before

 

And he gives a hop and holler

At the moons front door

And then we stop to rest a while

Where the soda river glides

Up to the slip

Comes a pirate ship

To take us for a ride

And the Pony Man's the Captain

And the children are the crew

And we go in search of treasure

And laugh the whole night through

And when the hold is full of gold

And the sails begin to strain

And the decks piled high with apple pie

We head for port again

 

Then down the whirling staircase

Swift our ponies fly

And we're safely in our beds again

When the sunbeams kiss the sky

 

When it's midnight on the meadow

And the cats are in the shed

And the river tells a story at the window by my bed

And if you listen closely

Be as quiet as you can

In the yard you'll hear him

It is the Pony Man!