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Song:        THE PONY MAN
Artist:      Gordon Lightfoot
Time Sig:    4/4
Tempo:       100 bpm
Transcribed: Mike LaFountain (mbl@forelsystems.com)


CHORDS:
G:230003  C:x32010  D:x00232

As in many or his early works, Mr. Lightfoot uses a traditional
finger picking rhythm throughout the song (I think it's called
"Travis Style" and PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong). The one
measure of G chord tab demonstrates it. The strings are played
with the fingers as indicated where p=Thumb, i=Index, m=middle
and r=ring; e is an eight note and s is a sixteenth note.


|--3r--------------3r--------------|
|--------------3r--------------3r--|
|-----------0m--------------0m-----|
|--------0i--------------0i--------|
|-----2p--------------2p-----------|
|--3p--------------3p--------------|
   e  s  e  s  e   e  s  e  s  e


1. [G]When it's midnight on the meadow
   and the [C]cats are in the [G]shed [G]
   And the river tells a [C]story
   at the [D]window by my bed [D]
   If you [G]listen very closely,
   be as [C]quiet as you [G]can; [G]
   in the yard you'll [C]hear him,
   it [D]is the Pony [G]Man [G] [G]

2. We're always there to greet him
   when he tumbles into town.
   He leads a string of ponies,
   some are white and some are brown.
   And they never seem to kick or bite,
   they only want to play.
   And they live on candy apples
   instead of oats and hay

3. And when we are assembled
   he gives a soft command
   And we climb aboard our ponies
   as in a row they stand
   Then down the road we gallop
   and across the fields we fly
   And soon we all go sailing off
   into the midnight sky

Whistling Break

4. And as we gaily rock along
   beside a ripplin' sea
   there's Tom and Dick and Sally
   and Mary Jo and me
   and the Pony Man is leading
   'cause he's traveled here before
   And he gives a whoop and holler
   at Mr. Moons front door

5. And then we stop to rest awhile
   where the soda river glides
   Up to the slip comes a pirate ship
   to take us for a ride
   And the Pony Man's the captain
   and the children are the crew
   And we go in search of treasure
   and laugh the whole night through

6. And when the hold is filled with gold
   and the sails begin to strain
   And the decks piled high with apple pie,
   we head for port again
   And down the whirling star case
   so swift our ponies fly
   and we're safely in our beds again
   when the sunbeams kiss the sky

Repeat first verse.

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