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Date: 2/13/98; 8:37:45 AM
From: Juergen Grimminger <juergen.grimminger@gfii.com>
Subject: Ponies by Martin Michael Murphey

Ponies by Martin Michael Murphey:

Written by Jeff Hawthorne Bullock
>From the album The Horse Legends

G   G9   G   G9

G         G9         G       G9
Somewhere out on the prairie
C                                  D
Is the greatest cowboy thatÎs ever been
G                               C      Em Am G
When he lays his hands upon the ponies
     D                               G(III) --- D(X) C(VIII) G(VII)
They shutter with that understanding skin

        G          G7               C     Em Am G
He says ponies now ponies donÎt you worry
  D                                 G
I have not come to steal your fire away
                                  C       Em Am G
I want to fly with you across the sunrise
       D                              G   G9   G   G9
And discover what begins each shining day

         G                   G7               C        Em Am G
When the storm clouds in the west are quickly gathering
D                                G
Ponies they run wildly before it rains
                                         C(VIII) Em(VII) Am(V) G(III)
YouÎll see their sleek dark bodies brightly gleaminÎ
       D                                    G
YouÎll know the fireÎs flying through their brains

        G          G7               C     Em Am G
He says ponies now ponies donÎt you worry
  D                                 G
I have not come to steal your fire away
                                  C       Em Am G
I want to fly with you across the sunrise
       D                              G
And discover what begins each shining day


          G                 G7             C   Em  Am  G
------7-8-8/10-10-10------7-8-7^8^7------------------------
-8-10------------------10-----------10-8-----8---8---------
-------------------------------------------9---7---5-------
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     D                                G
----------------7-7^8-7-----------------------------8-7----
-7^8-10-10-10-----------10---7^8-10-7-8---7^8^7------------
------------------------------------------------9-7--------
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        G          G7               C     Em Am G
He says ponies now ponies donÎt you worry
  D                                 G
I have not come to steal your fire away
                                  C       Em Am G
I want to fly with you across the sunrise
       D                              G
And discover what begins each shining day

        G          G7               C     Em Am G
He says ponies now ponies donÎt you worry
  D                                 G
I have not come to steal your fire away (fade out)


(Roman numerals are fret numbers)
--- means to slide down with the same chord shape