John Hiatt - Ride My Pony lyrics

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