Let the Ponies Run chords by Jerry Jeff Walker
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Jerry Jeff Walker
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We held a funeral and a wake at
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the
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Diamondback Saloon
With every old-time cowboy agathered
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in one room
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Swappin' tales and tellin' lies from
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days when they were young
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Fearless buckaroos who always
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let the ponies run
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I still see us
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Verse 3
behind the chutes,
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standin' in the sun
Light reflecting off the shiny
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buckles that we'd won
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Farmin' boys from everywhere,
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just a ropin' in our dreams
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Buckin' down the highway in old trucks
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and faded jeans
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Cheyenne days to Fort Worth
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nights, we drove every inch of road
We often spoke our dreams out loud, sharing
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rooms and dirty clothes
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The bandaged up, the broken ones,
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too tough to ever cry
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The one we won the big go around,
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the drinks were ours to buy
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Days were filled with mundane chores that
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kept us lean and mean
But our nights were spent out dancin'
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with the fairest girls we'd seen
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Regaling them with wild ass tales,
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that weren't that far from true
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There wasn't a single fa vor asked that
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your old pal wouldn't do
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And every year the finals drew us
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back to OKC
Shoulders, Mahan, Steiner,
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Vol, T-bone an d and old Duffy
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And when the dust had settled and
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the last go-round was was run
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We stayed up all night singing songs
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'til every song was sung
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The broken bones and broken hearts
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that led to broken homes
And the trails we rode together,
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now we travel on alone
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And the friends we saw each summer,
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now we hardly saw at all
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A little something's broken off each time a
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cowboy falls
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Well adios amigos, see you down the line
I sure enjoyed the bullshit,
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cause it brought back some good times
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And if you see those pals we knew from
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days when we were young
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Tell them I stil saddle up just
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to feel the ponies run
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Let the Ponies Run
Jerry Jeff Walker
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