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(Words and Music by Joan Baez)
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In the early dawn a stallion white
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Prances the hills in the morning light.
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His bridle is painted with thunder and gold,
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Orchids and dragons, pale knights of old.
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He is the horse of the ages past.
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And now the children run to see
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The stallion on the hill,
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Bringing bags of apples
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And of clover they have filled.
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And the white horse tells his stories
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Of the days now past and gone
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And the children stand a-wondering
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Believing every song.
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How brightly glows the past.
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When the sun is high comes a mare so red,
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Trampling the graves of the living and dead.
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Her mantle is heavy with mirrors and glass,
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All is reflected when the red mare does pass.
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She is the horse of the here and now.
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And now there is confusion
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Amongst the children on the hill.
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They cling to one another
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And no longer can be still.
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While the red mare's voice is trembling
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With a rare and mighty call,
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The children start remembering
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The bearers and the pall.
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And though their many-colored sweaters
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Are reflected in the glass,
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And though the sun shines down upon them,
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They are frightened in the grass.
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How stark is the here and now.
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When night does fall comes a stallion black,
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So proud and tall he never looks back.
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He wears him no emeralds, silver and gold,
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Not even a covering to keep him from cold.
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He is the horse of the years to come.
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And I will get me down
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Before this steed upon my knees
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And sing to him the sorrows
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Of a thousand centuries.
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And the children now will scatter
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As their mothers call them home,
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For the sadness of the evening horse
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No child has ever known.
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And I will hang about him
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A bell that's never rung
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And thank him for the many words
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Which from his throat have never sprung.
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And I'll thank God and all the angels
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That the stallion of the evening,
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The black horse of the future,
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Comes to earth but has no tongue.
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© 1971 Chandos Music (ASCAP)
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