LYRICS
Verse 1
You might have seen him on a postcard
He’s a legend in these parts
A pinto stallion from the mesa
Who steals mares and young girls’ hearts
One eye like a reflection Of the clear Sonora sky One eye dark and troubled Like an icy star-filled night
Chorus
It’s that crazy eyed overo
Oh he thrills me to the marrow
He sweeps down and raids all the
rancheros
-Then he takes off like an arrow.
That Crazy-Eyed Overo
Verse 2
In the town we talk around
About how we’re going to find him
We always seem to be
About 20 miles behind him.
No one knows how close I came
That night out on the hill
When he danced in from the shadows
And stood before me oh so still.
Tag
- Then he took off like an arrow That Crazy-Eyed Overo
Bridge
Saddle up boys I think we’re going to catch him tonight
Spur on your fastest ponies we can do it if
we play our cards right
We’re hot on his trail, think he’s headed
for the border
If we fan out wide we can surround him just like law and order.
Wait a minute - What’s that we see? Oh no! - Can that be he?
Verse 3
Silhouetted high
Up on the mesa
All we can do is tip our hats
And finish our cerveza.
And dream about the next time We might have the chance again To get close enough to touch him And feel his satin skin.
Chorus
It’s that crazy eyed overo
Oh he thrills me to the marrow
I once got so close with my lassiero
-Then he took off like an arrow. That Crazy-Eyed Overo
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In the golden afternoons I’d come home from school
Saddle up my pony
Do you remember Bonnie Blue?
Lope off down the canyon Headed for our special tree. There on your black Gypsy You'd be waiting there for me.
[chorus]
Only teenage dreamers
Only half way grown
We’d talk and laugh and dream about
Things we were going to do.
You on your black Gypsy
Me on Bonnie Blue
[verse]
Life brought us some changes.
You went off to sea.
I picked up a guitar
And wrote a song or three.
Gypsy got the founder
To keep her going just seemed cruel.
I got short of cash one time
So I sold my Bonnie Blue.
[chorus]
Only teenage dreamers
Thought we had it made.
We’d talk and laugh and dream about
The things we were going to do.
You on your black Gypsy
And me on Bonnie Blue.
[verse]
I heard that you got married
Some kids and a pretty wife.
Me, I’ve had some good times
Made a small success of life.
Sometimes I go riding
It’s never quite the same
Sometimes when it’s late at night,
I still call out your name.
[chorus]
Only teenage dreamers
When everything was new
We’d talk and laugh and dream about
The things we were going to do
With you on your black Gypsy
And me on Bonnie Blue.
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[verse 1]
I hope you’re rolling in clover
In hills that stretch as far as the eye
can see
I hope you never grew a day older
But most of all I hope you’re
running free
[verse 2]
I hope you’re never stopped by
fences
The barriers of time keeping you
from me
I wish I could open the gates to
forever
But most of all I hope you’re
running free.
[chorus]
Running free
Under the [G6] rainbow
Running free
Cross a cloudless sky
Running free
That’s all I ask for
I hope you’re
Running free
[verse 3]
I hope you have a young girl who
loves you
I hope she looks a little bit like me
I hope she brings you apples in the
sunshine
But most of all I hope you’re running free.
[chorus]
Running free
Under the rainbow
Running free
Cross a cloudless sky
Running free
That’s all I ask for
I hope you’re Running
Free
Under the rainbow
Running free
Cross a cloudless sky
Running free
That’s all I ask for
I hope you’re Running free
I hope - you’re Running - free
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In the Chauvet cave in France the images still seem so clear Paintings of horses that have lasted
thirty-thousand years. . . .
[Chorus]
I’m not the
first girl
To love the look of you
I’m not the
first girl
To want to hold you fast
I’m not the
first girl
To want to capture you
I’m not the
first girl
To want to make it last
I’m not the
first girl
To want to make it last.
Sitting by the fire watching as the last
! remaining wood is burning.
Imagining I see you
! galloping across the empty walls
The charcoal on my fingertips
working out the details of my yearning
I’m wondering about the eyes who someday will see what I see now
[Tag]
I’m not the
first girl
To want to make it last
I’m not the
first girl
To want to make it last.
[Bridge]
In the flickering light
the images start to appear
Lasting thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of years.
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[Verse]
Saddled up my red mare Headed out for one last ride Can’t save the ranch but Maybe I can save some pride
Torn loose like a tumble weed Driven by a fierce northern blow
No place left for us to go. [Chorus]
Lettin’ go the reins
Lettin’ go the pain, pullin' me down
Nothing left to gain
It ain’t raining cash
In this dried up ol’ town.
We have lost our place,
All our open space
Red , ----- this is our last ride.
[Verse]
All the other horses
On a truck bound for Mexico Buck and Spice and Tony Sugar with her brand new foal
Horses have a way of knowing what we Hope they cannot know
No place left for us to go.
[Chorus]
Lettin’ go the reins
Lettin’ go the pain, pullin' me down
Nothing left to gain
It ain’t raining cash
In this dried up ol’ town.
Red , ----- this is our last ride.
[Bridge]
whoah whoaaaah
whoah whoaaaah
'Gonna wave good-bye
To the wide open sky
And I hope we can just run fast
Until we fly
[Chorus]
Lettin’ go the reins
Lettin’ go the pain, pulling me down
Nothing left to gain
It ain’t raining cash
In this dried up ol’ town.
We have lost our place,
All our open space
Red , ----- this is our last ride.
Red , ----- this is our last ride.
Red , ----- this is our last ride.
[chorus]
She had some horses She had some horses She had some horses
V1
She had horses who had long silky
manes
She had horses made of clay who
would break
She had horses formed from cumulous
clouds
She had horses made of birthday cake.
She had some horses
V2
She had horses who nibbled on sugar
She had horses who rolled in the dirt
She had horses who galloped when she
whistled
She had horses who were truckloads of
hurt.
She had some horses [chorus]
Yikkeee Ki Yi!
Yikkee Ki Yi!
She had some horses
V3
She had horses with long roman noses
Se had horses with massive brown
thighs
She had horses who would jump all the
fence
She had horses who never won a prize.
She had some horses.
V4
She had horses who liked Stomp Dance
songs
She had horses who had no names.
She had horses who she called“Spirit.”
She had horses whose names had
changed.
[chorus]
[Yikkeee Yi! Yikkee Yi!
She had some horses]
[instrumental]
[Bridge]
She had some horses she loved
She had some horses she hated
These were the same horses
[chorus]
[Yikkeee Yi! Yikkee Yi!
She had some horses]
She had some horses She had some horses She had some horses