Gray and chalky like my granddaddy's skin,
The sky was cold and lonely and closin' in
All the trees look like stubble on winter's chin
And I think I'll ride my pony
There's a wreath of bone's and ribbon hangin' on my cabin door
Lusty appetites have ravaged all of summer's stores
And the fear of d**h don't even come to visit me no more
So I think I'll ride my pony
Ridin' someplace lonesome has no meaning
Ridin' somewhere I ain't stayed to long
Ridin' down a mountain side careening
Ridin' up some open cut with fate my only song
I think I'll ride my pony
Well the horseman you might say he is a slave to the brute
But he loves that beast of burden and there is no substitute
For the pleasure of his saddle or the leather of his boot
So I think I'll ride my pony
Had a girl in dickson county and we rode the highland rim
She kept my cabin warm in winter and mended every hem
And I would have took her with me but that trail never ends
So I think I'll ride my pony
Ridin' where spring comes up like roses
Wraps its thorns and petals ‘round my mind
Ridin' somewhere only god supposes
I could ever dream of gettin' to, from sneakin' up behind
I think I'll ride my pony
I think I'll ride my pony
I think I'll ride my pony