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girls and horses templeton thompson ©2006 connected at the hit songs, ascap
well she talks about `em dreams about `em thinks about `em all the time she's got to have `em be lost without `em you can see it in her eyes what is it, what is it with girls and horses she says, (now) when i was a young girl they were my whole world they were my one safe place and now that i'm older i still lean on their shoulders still feel like that girl somedays what is it, what is it with girls and horses sometimes i wanna give up throw up my hands and say enough's enough that's when i go and saddle up and runaway, `til i'm ok `til i'm not afraid of stayin' in the game maybe that's what it is with girls and horses well i talk about `em and i dream about `em live to love `em and i love to ride i'll always have `em be lost without `em there's magic in those gentle eyes what is it, what is it with girls and horses what is it, what is it with girls and horses guardian angel tt/sam gay/porter howell ©2006 connected at the hit songs/P 90 Music, ascap
she could've passed for a cowboy the way she carried herself and that fifty pounds of leather put it up on that pony, light as a feather like she'd done it all her life then she asked if i was ready handed me the reins and we started out walkin' up until that mornin' she hadn't been much on talkin' guess it'd finally come the time and she said i've learned more from the back of a horse than most folks ever get to know you never really know what you're made of `til you ride out on your own ooo baby don't worry i know you're gonna be just fine ooo now don't be in a hurry you'll feel it when you hit your stride don't get rattled, sit deep in the saddle remember to hold on tight and never ride faster than your guardian angel can fly i remember what she told me it's as clear as a bell like it was on that mornin' kind of like a blessing and a warnin' i've carried all this time i'll pass it on to my daughter as she loads up her car and heads out of the driveway she'll have had enough of doin' things my way it'll be her turn to fly and i'll say i've learned more from the back of a horse than most folks ever get to know you never really know what you're made of `til you ride out on your own ooo baby don't worry you know you're gonna be just fine ooo don't be in a hurry you'll feel it when you hit your stride don't get rattled, sit deep in the saddle remember to hold on tight and never ride faster than your guardian angel can fly ooo baby don't worry you know you're gonna be just fine ooo don't be in a hurry you'll feel it when you hit your stride don't get rattled, sit deep in the saddle remember to hold on tight and never ride faster than your guardian angel can fly don't you ever ride faster than your guardian angel can fly remember oh remember baby she coulda passed for a cowboy cowgirl creed t t/sam gay ©2006 connected at the hit songs, ascap
she said i can do that it wouldn't take nothin' but a whole lotta heart, iron will and gumption i'll just use what the good lord gave me so don't call me honey and don't call me baby don't call me baby i ride high in the saddle always saddle my own horse still i'm every inch a lady from the outside to the core i take the trail less traveled `cause i know where it leads i live my life by the cowgirl creed i dream as big as texas work hard and i'm faithful i never cease to be amazed, dedicated and grateful i try to be a good hand when a hand's what's needed and i'll stay that way long as i'm livin' and breathin' and i'll die with my boots on i ride high in the saddle always saddle my own horse still i'm every inch a lady from the outside to the core i take the trail less traveled `cause i know where it leads i live my life by the cowgirl creed i can hear my heroes on the western wind say “what's holdin' you back, what's keepin' you in, runnin' scared, that ain't no way to live, tear down those fences and ride like the wind” i think the world looks a lot better from the back of a good horse where i can see forever see just what i'm shootin' for i love this life that i've been given i'm right where i'm `s'posed to be i live my life by the cowgirl creed just stay crazy sam gay/ t t/ porter howell ©2006 connected at the hit songs/P 90 Music, ascap
They say the things I'm dreamin' they just can't be done They walk the line and say that I'm the foolish one They got this `n that `n the other But I'll tell you one thing brother They sure don't look like they're havin' any fun I think I'll just stay crazy Think I'll just keep runnin' wild Long as you're here with me baby If I go down I go down with a smile Just stay crazy… I'll just stay crazy Sometimes it gets scary out here on the edge There's no safety rail and sure as hell there ain't no net But I like the view up here It's wide-open and it's clear And if you never try then nothin's all you get So I think I'll just stay crazy Think I'll just keep runnin' wild Long as you're here with me baby If I go down I go down with a smile Just stay crazy… just stay crazy Well I play my guitar all night long And I make my livin' singin' songs About how the world could get along If we'd all stick to right and wrong I like rollin' in the daisies Yeah and if that makes me crazy, then I'll just stay crazy I think I'll just keep runnin' wild Long as you're here with me baby If I go down I go down with a smile Just stay crazy… just stay crazy Just stay crazy… I'll just stay crazy Just stay crazy ride before it rains tt/sg ©2006 connected at the hit songs, ascap
you've seen the floods come down you've felt the lightnin' and heard the thunder it's not that i don't want you around but this time i'm not gonna drag you under i think i better ride before it rains think i better saddle up my fastest pony somethin' about these winds of change is tellin' me i best get goin' i can feel a storm movin' this way yeah i think i better ride before it rains i know you wanna help i know how much you wanna be there for me but some things i gotta do myself i'm not gone for good please believe me i think i better ride before it rains think i better saddle up my fastest pony somethin' about these winds of change is tellin' me i best get goin' i can feel a storm movin' this way yeah i think i better ride before it rains before these blue skies turn gray before i say some things i wish i didn't say somethin' about these winds of change is tellin' me i best get goin' i can feel a storm movin' this way yeah i think i better ride before it rains yeah i think i better ride before it rains she remembers ridin' tt/sg ©2006 connected at the hit songs/ascap
time has a funny way of takin' some things away she's not the girl she used to be i've been here every day since she's been in this place and i've watched her slowly slip away she must've been somethin' in her younger years that's all she talks about since she's been here she remembers ridin' that old gray geldin' she remembers the wind on her face and the feel of the reins in her hands and it's good to see her smilin' but so hard to keep from cryin' when i walk in the room and she doesn't know who i am she remembers ridin' she says i gotta go i got ten head of cows to load and i've still gotta saddle up big blue then she calls for her old cow dog and i let her ramble on `cause that old dog's been gone since '52 she's livin' out her days in memories maybe that's better than her reality she remembers ridin' that old grey geldin' she remembers the wind on her face and the feel of the reins in her hands and it's good to see her smilin' but so hard to keep from cryin' when i walk in the room and she doesn't know who i am she remembers ridin' and it's good to see her smilin' but so hard to keep from cryin' when i walk in the room and she doesn't know who i am she remembers ridin' time has a funny way of takin some things away…… shouldn't we all t t/sam gay/porter howell ©2006 connected at the hit songs/P 90 Music, ascap
early monday mornin' bluesin' `bout these bills i got to pay ain't no way lately luck's been such a stranger hard times just keep rainin' down on me poor, poor me i look outside the window the world seems so alive all of god's creations out there soakin' up the sunshine yeah the birds are doin' it all up in the trees they sing their little hearts out baby why can't we be makin' love, makin' hay enjoyin' the ride every day ain't sweatin' a thing just havin' a ball shouldn't we all hay, shouldn't we all that fight we had last evenin' is still ringin' up and down inside these walls still hangin' on like the tension in between us since when does winnin' matter more than love more than us just look outside the window the world looks so alive all of god's creations out there soakin' up the sunshine yeah the birds are doin' it all up in the trees yeah they sing their little hearts out baby why can't we be makin' love, makin' hay enjoyin' the ride every day ain't sweatin' a thing just havin' a ball shouldn't we all lighten up just a little (shouldn't we all) just wing it sometimes (shouldn't we all) be light as a feather and learn to fly 'cause the birds are doin' it all up in the trees they sing their little hearts out baby why can't you and me be makin' love, makin' hay enjoyin' the ride every day ain't sweatin' a thing baby just havin' a ball shouldn't we all hay, shouldn't we all shouldn't we all `cause the birds are doin' it beautiful day tt/sg ©2006 connected at the hit songs, ascap
there's a bluebird on some barbed wire there ain't no clouds only blue sky and i got flowers in my garden yeah it's lookin' like a beautiful day so I was thinkin' i'd go walkin' down the dirt road maybe stop and smell the roses take it easy yeah it's lookin' like a beautiful day beautiful day yeah yeah beautiful day ain't it beautiful beautiful day yeah yeah beautiful day lay the top down take a long ride that'll be me wavin' goodbye to whatever used to get me yeah it's gonna be a beautiful day beautiful day yeah yeah beautiful day ain't it beautiful beautiful day yeah yeah beautiful day `cause it's all good feelin' alright I got it made in the shade It's a beautiful day don't tell me that it's rainin' I got no room for complainin' it's only weather it don't matter it's gonna be a beautiful day beautiful day yeah yeah beautiful day ain't it beautiful beautiful day yeah yeah beautiful day `cause it's all good feelin' alright I got it made in the shade It's a beautiful day tall in the saddle john tirro/lisa aschmann copyright 2006 mondo zen music/nashville geographic/ascap
so you've been on the trail a good while you're worn out and weary from many a mile but you don't let it show you set your eyes on the miles left to go you're tall in the saddle you keep your head high and your heart just as open as the prairie is wide you're tall in the saddle when you ride who can you tell all the places you've seen an old rolled-up blanket and a dented canteen and your pillow of stone but you can't be weighed down by the things you don't own you're tall in the saddle you keep your head high and your heart just as open as the prairie is wide you're tall in the saddle when you ride don't you love the freedom don't you love the land and the feel of the reins in your hand it's getting' on dark, but you've got a good mare and she knows the way home and she'll take you there and wherever you are that's somethin' to show for comin' so far you're tall in the saddle you keep your head high and your heart just as open as the prairie is wide you're tall in the saddle when you ride wake up grateful tt/sg © 2006 connected at the hit songs/ascap
everyday i count my blessins' i'm just so glad to be alive i do my best to learn my lessons `cause i don't think we get to do this twice this thing called life this thing called life cup a coffee on my back porch i sit and watch a new day dawn i don't take one thing for granted `cause this don't last for very long this thing called life this thing called life and now everyday, everyday i wake up grateful it's a choice i make, everyday to keep it simple and when come what may tries to shake my faith at the end of the day i give it away and lay my head down and i wake up grateful i know pain's a part a livin' but it don't scare me like it did you see i used to have this fear of failin' but now i take a breath and dive right in this thing called life this thing called life and now everyday, everyday i wake up grateful it's a choice i make, everyday to keep it simple and when come what may tries to shake my faith at the end of the day i give it away and lay my head down and i wake up grateful yeah I wake up grateful |
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