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Date: 3/19/98; 4:49:49 AM
 From: rickl1@IX.netcom.com (rick)
 Subject: CRD: Ballad Of A Runaway Horse     Emmylou Harris    Chords/Lyrics
 Emmylou Harris   Ballad Of A Runaway Horse  written by Leonard Cohen
 David Hoffner    keyboards
 Richard Bennett  mandocello
 Kathy Chiavola   harmony
 
 
 B
 Say a prayer for the cowgirl her horse ran away
        E
 She'll walk til she finds him her darling her stray
         B
 But the rivers in flood and the roads are awash
         F#                               B
 And the bridges break up in the panic of loss
 B
 And there's nothing to follow nowhere to go
      E 
 He's gone like the summer gone like the snow
         B
 And the crickets are breaking her heart with their song
        F#                                B
 As the day caves in and the night is all wrong
 B
 Did she dream was it he who went galloping past
     E
 And bent down the fern broke open the grass   
     B
 And printed the mud with the well-hammered shoe
          F#                                       B
 That she nailed to his speed in the dreams of her youth
 B
 And although he goes grazing a minute away
     E
 She tracks him all night she tracks him all day
           B
 And she's blind to his presence except to compare
     F#                              B
 Her injury here with his punishment there
         E
 Then at home on a branch on a high stream
   B        
 A Songbird sings out so suddenly 
         E
 And the sun is warm and the soft winds ride
      B                  F#     B
 On a willow tree by the riverside
 B
 All the world is sweet and the world is wide
       E
 He's  there where the light and the darkness divide
          B
 And the steam's coming off him he's huge and he's shy
        F#                                    B
 And he steps on the moon when he paws at the sky
 B
 And he comes to her hand but he's not really tame
    E
 He longs to be lost she longs for the same
           B 
 And he'll bolt and he'll plunge through the first open pass
   F#                                      B
 To roll and to feed in the sweet mountain grass
 B
 Or he'll make a break for the high plateau
               E
 Where there's nothing above and nothing below
      B
 It's time for their burden the whip and the spur              
          F#                                 B
 Will she ride with him or will he ride with her
       E
 So she binds herself to her galloping steed
        B
 And he binds himself to the woman in need
           E
 And there is no space just left and right
     B                    F#               B
 And there is no time but there is day and night
 B
 And she leans on his neck and whispers low
 E
 Whither thou goest I will go
          B
 And they turn as one and they head for the plain
    F#                                   B
 No need for the whip or no need for the rein
 B
 Now the clasp of this union who fastens it tight
    E 
 Who snaps it asunder the very next night
      B
 Some say  it's him some say it's her
          F#                             B
 Some say love's like smoke beyond all repair
 B
 So my darling my darling just let it go by
      E
 That old silhouette on the great western sky
          B
 And I'll pick out a tune and they'll move right along
             F#                                        B
 And they're gone like smoke and the're gone like this song
       B
 Say a prayer for the cowgirl
 
 
     Asylum Records 1993
     From Emmylou Harris "Cowgirl's Prayer"
     Leonard Cohen Stranger Music

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