Ballad Of A Runaway Horse chords by
Emmylou Harris

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Key: B major•

Verse 1

B

B

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Say a prayer for the cowgirl

Her horse ran away

E

E

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She'll walk 'til she finds

him, her darling

B

B

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Her stray but the river's in flood and

The roads are awash

F#

F#

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And the bridges break up in the

B

B

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panic of loss

Verse 2

B

B

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And there's nothing to follow,

nowhere to go

E

E

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He's gone like the summer,

gone like the snow

B

B

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And the crickets are breaking her

Heart with their song

F#

F#

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As the day caves in and

B

B

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The night is all wrong

Verse 3

B

B

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Did she dream? Was it he

Who went galloping past?

E

E

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And bent down the fern,

broke open the grass

B

B

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And printed the mud with

The well hammered shoe

F#

F#

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That she nailed to his speed in

B

B

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The dreams of her youth

Verse 4

B

B

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And although he goes

grazing a minute away

E

E

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She tracks him all night

She tracks him all day

B

B

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And she's blind to his

Presence except to compare

F#

F#

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B

B

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Her injury here with his punishment there

Verse 5

B

B

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E

E

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Then at home on a branch

on a high stream

B

B

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A songbird sings out so suddenly

E

E

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And the sun is warm and the soft winds ride

B

B

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F#

F#

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B

B

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On a willow tree by the riverside

Verse 6

B

B

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Ah the world is sweet

and the world is wide

E

E

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And he's there where the light

And the darkness divide

B

B

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And the steam's coming off him

He's huge and he's shy

F#

F#

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And he steps on the moon when

B

B

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He paws at the sky

Verse 7

B

B

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And he comes to her hand

But he's not really tame

E

E

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He longs to be lost,

she longs for the same

B

B

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And he'll bolt and he'll plunge

Through the first open pass

F#

F#

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To roll and to feed in

B

B

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The sweet mountain grass

Verse 8

B

B

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Or he'll make a break for

the high plateau

E

E

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Where there's nothing above

and nothing below

B

B

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It's time for their burden

The whip and the spur

F#

F#

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Will she ride with him or

B

B

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Will he ride with her?

Verse 9

B

B

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E

E

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So she binds herself to her galloping steed

B

B

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And he binds himself to the

woman in need

E

E

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And there is no space, just left and right

B

B

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And there is no time

F#

F#

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B

B

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But there is day and night

Verse 10

B

B

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Then she leans on his neck

and whispers low

E

E

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Whither thou goest, I will go

B

B

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And they turn as one and

They head for the plain

F#

F#

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No need for the whip,

B

B

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oh no need for the rein

Verse 11

B

B

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Now the clasp of this union

Who fastens it tight

E

E

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Who snaps it asunder the very next night

B

B

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Some say it's him, some say it's her

F#

F#

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Some say love's like smoke

B

B

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beyond all repair

Verse 12

B

B

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So my darling, my darling, just let it go by

E

E

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That old silhouette on

the great western sky

B

B

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And I'll pick out a tune

And they'll move right along

F#

F#

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And they're gone like smoke and

B

B

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They're gone like this song

Outro 1

Say a prayer for the cowgirl

B

B

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