Ponies

Words and Music by Jeffrey Bullock
sung by John Denver
on Different Directions (1991)


Unusual chords:
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C   :  332|1|     C1 : 322|1|    C2 : 3|2|1|   C3 : 3|2|1|


 G                            C
Somewhere out on the prairie
                                    D
Is the greatest cowboy that's ever been
      G                G7             C     C1 C2 C3
And when he lays his  hands upon the ponies
       D                             G  D  G
They shudder with an understanding skin

      
And he says ponies
     G7               C    C1 C2 C3
Now ponies don't you worry
   D                                 G
I have not come to steal your fire away
                   G7              C      C1 C2 C3
I want to fly with you across the sunrise
    D                              G
Discover what begins each shining day

                              G7
When the storm clouds in the west
             C        C1 C2 C3
Are quickly gathering
     D   
The ponies they run wild there
           G
Before it rains
                             G7               C      C1 C2 C3
You'll see their sleek dark bodies brightly gleaming
      D                                     G    D  G
You know the fire is flying through their brains


And he says ponies
     G7               C    C1 C2 C3
Now ponies don't you worry
   D                                 G
I have not come to steal your fire away
                   G7              C      C1 C2 C3
I want to fly with you across the sunrise
    D                              G
Discover what begins each shining day