The Pony Man Chords by Gordon Lightfoot

[Start]

[Verse]
A                                 
■ When it's midnight on the meadow
                 D      A   
And the cats are in the shed
        A                  
And the river tells a story
D      E               
At the window by my bed
       A                  
If you listen very closely
            D      A  
Be as quiet as you can
                        D  
In the yard you'll hear him
E                  A
It is the pony man ■
      A                        
We're always there to greet him
        D            A   
When he tumbles into town
                     D     
He leads a string of ponies
E                                
Some are white and some are brown
         A                         
And they never seem to kick or bite
     D            A   
They only want to play
                       D     
And they live on candy apples
E                   A  
Instead of oats and hay
         A               
And when we are assembled
   D            A      
He gives a soft command


[Chorus]
                        D     
And we climb aboard our ponies
E                     
As in a row they stand
     A                      
Then down the road we gallop
           D             A  
And across the fields we fly
                   D          
And soon we all go sailing off
E                 A  
Into the midnight sky


[Inst]
D A D E A
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[Verse]
    A                     
And as we gaily rock along
D                 A  
Beside a ripplin' sea
                         D    
There's Tom 'n' Dick 'n' Sally
E                  
And Mary Joe and me
        A                  
And the pony man is leading
            D              A     
'cause he's travelled here before
                           D     
And he gives a whoop and a holler
E                  A   
At Mr Moon's front door
    A                           
And then we stop to rest a while
          D          A     
Where the soda river glides
                       D          
Up to the slip comes a pirate ship
   E                 
To take us for a ride
        A                     
And the pony man's the captain
        D                A   
And the children are the crew
                       D       
And we go in search of treasure
E                   A            
And laugh the whole night through
                                 A   
And when the hold is filled with gold
D                             A
And the sails begin to strain ■


[Chorus]
                     D                  
And the deck's piled high with apple pie
E                     
We head for port again
A                              
Then down the whirling starcase
D                       A
So swift our ponies fly ■
                 D                
And we're safely in our beds again
                  E        A  
When the sunbeams kiss the sky


[Inst]
D A D E A
■ ■ ■ ■ ■


[Verse]
A                               
When it's midnight on the meadow
D                       A   
And the cats are in the shed
              D            
And the river tells a story
              E        
At the window by my bed
A                         
If you listen very closely
D                  A  
Be as quiet as you can
                        D  
In the yard you'll hear him
   E           A  
It is the pony man


[End]