Ballad Of A Runaway Horse-Emmylou Harris

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[00:00.00]Ballad Of A Runaway Horse - Emmylou Harris (爱美萝·哈里斯)
[00:05.38]Say a prayer for the cowgirl her horse ran away
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[00:10.77]She'll walk 'til she finds him her darlin' her stray
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[00:16.06]But the river's in flood and the roads are awash
[00:21.02]And the bridges break up in the panic of loss
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[00:31.24]And there's nothin' to follow nowhere to go
[00:36.44]He's gone like the summer gone like the snow
[00:41.47]And the crickets are breaking her heart with their song
[00:46.84]As the day caves in and the night is all wrong
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[00:57.23]Did she dream it was he who went galloping past
[01:02.37]And bent down the fern broke open the grass
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[01:07.86]And printed the mud with the well hammered shoe
[01:12.86]That she nailed to his speed in the dreams of her youth
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[01:23.33]And although he goes grazin' a minute away
[01:28.38]She tracks him all night she tracks him all day
[01:33.56]And she's blind to his presence except to compare
[01:38.90]Her injury here with his punishment there
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[01:49.27]Then at home on a branch on a high stream
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[01:54.41]A songbird sings out so suddenly
[01:59.58]And the sun is warm and the soft winds ride
[02:04.89]On a willow tree by the riverside
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[02:14.80]An the world is sweet and the world is wide
[02:19.89]He's there where the light and the darkness divide
[02:25.27]And the steam's comin' off him he's huge and he's shy
[02:30.69]And he steps on the moon when he paws at the sky
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[02:40.85]And he comes to her hand but he's nor really tame
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[02:46.02]He longs to be lost she longs for the same
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[02:51.39]And he'll bolt and he'll plunge thru the first open pass
[02:56.46]To roll and to feed in the sweet mountain grass
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[03:06.97]Or he'll make a break for the high plateau
[03:12.01]Where there's nothing above and noting below
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[03:17.18]It's time for their burden the whip and the spur
[03:22.54]Will she ride with him or will he ride with her
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[03:32.53]So she binds herself to her galloping steed
[03:38.01]And he binds himself to the woman in need
[03:42.89]And there is no space just left and right
[03:48.06]And there is no time but there is day and night
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[03:58.38]Then she learns on his neck and whispers low
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[04:04.24]Whither thou goest I will go
[04:08.75]And they turn as one and the head for the plain
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[04:13.90]No need for the whip oh no need for the rain
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[04:24.21]Now the clasp of this union who fastens it tight
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[04:29.59]Who snaps it asunder the very next night
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[04:35.25]Some say it's him some say it's her
[04:39.63]Some say love's like smoke beyond all repair
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[04:50.55]So my darlin' my darlin' just let go by
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[04:55.81]That old silhouette on the great western sky
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[05:01.27]And I'll pick out a tune and they'll move right along
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[05:06.49]And they're gone like smoke
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[05:10.63]And they're gone like this song
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[05:16.98]Say a prayer for the cowgirl