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1.Chestnut Mare

Written:roger mcguinn and jacques levy

Always alone never with a herd
Prettiest mare i've ever seen
You'll have to take my word

I'm gonna' catch that horse if i can
And when i do i'll give her my brand

Well i was up on stony ridge after this chestnut mare
I'd been chasin' her for weeks
Oh, i'd catch a glimpse of her every once in a while
Takin' her meal, or bathin
A fine lady

This one day i happened to be real close to her
I saw her standin' over there
So i snuck up to her nice and easy
And i got my rope out
And i flung it in the air

I'm gonna' catch that horse if i can
And when i do i'll give her my brand
And we'll be friends for life
She'll be just like a wife
I'm gonna' catch that horse if i can

Well i got her, and i'm pullin' on her, she's pullin' back
Like a mule goin' up a ladder
I take this chance and i jump up on her
Damned if i don't land right on top of her
Well she takes off, runnin' up on to that ridge
Higher than i've ever been before
She's runnin' along just fine, till she stops
Something spooked her
It's a sidewinder, all coiled and ready to strike
She doesn't know what to do for a second
But then she jumps off the edge
Me holding on

Above the clouds
Higher than eagles were gliding
Suspended in the sky

Over the moon
Straight for the sun we were riding
My eyes were filled with light

Behind us black walls
Below us a bottomless canyon
Floating with no sound

Gulls far below
Seemed to be suddenly rising
Exploding all around

I'm gonna' catch that horse if i can
And when i do i'll give her my brand
And we'll be friends for life
She'll be just like a wife
I'm gonna' catch that horse if i can

And we were falling down this crevice, about a mile down
I'd say! i look down and i see this red thing below us
It's our reflection in a little pool of water
About six feet wide, and one foot deep
And we're comin' up real fast
Crawling down right through it
We hit and we splashed it dry
That's when i lost my hold and she got away
But i'm gonna' try to get her again some day

I'm gonna' catch that horse if i can
And when i do i'll give her my brand
And we'll be friends for life
She'll be just like a wife
I'm gonna' catch that horse
I'm gonna' catch that horse
I'm gonna' catch that horse if i can
I'm gonna' catch that horse if i can


2.Truck Stop Girl

Written:lowell george and bill payne

Tailights flickerin', as he pulled up to a truckstop
The same old crowd was hangin' out again tonight
He said, 'fill up my tank while i go check my load
It feels like it's shifting all around'

He was the kind of man, do all he could
Above all he had integrity
But he was so young
And on a ten city run
In love with a truck stop girl

As he went inside, he was merrily greeted
By the girl with whom he was in love
She held out a glass and said, 'have another
This is the last time we can meet'

With her hair piled up high and a look in her eye
That would turn any good man's blood to wine
All his eyes could see, well all his eyes could see
Was the stare from all those around him

He ran out to the lot, and climbed into his rig
And drove off without tightening down
It was a terrilble thing, to see what remained
Of the rig that poor danny was in

And he was so young and on a ten city run
In love with a truck stop girl
But he was so young, and on a ten city run
In love with a truck stop girl


3.Hungry Planet

Written:skip battin, kim fowley, and roger mcguinn

I'm a hungry planet
I had a youthful face
They were in a hurry
To go to outer space
They needed bombs and tungsten
Ore and iron too
So they climbed and they dug and they blew
Divided me right in two
I'm a hungry planet
Orbiting in the sky
The things they did to hurt me
Pass on by and by
Now here i am all alone
They never ever learn
Well i had to shake and quake
And make their houses burn
I'm a hungry planet
I had the bluest seas
Oh the people kept choppin' down
All my finest trees
Poisonin' my oxygen
Diggin' into my skin
Takin' more out of my good earth
Than they'll ever put back in
I'm a hungry planet


4.Well Come Back Home

Written:skip battin

Well come back home, well come back home
Well come back home, well come back home
If you wanna tell someone about it tell me, tell me
If you gotta tell someone about it tell me, tell me
I think that i am afraid to hear it
I know you're afraid to say yes
Tell me anyway you can
Ah but don't tell your momma
I won't tell your papa
Well come back home, well come back home
Well come back home, well come back home
If you wanna tell someone about it tell me, tell me
If you gotta tell someone about it tell me, tell me
I know that i am afraid to hear it
And i think that you're afraid to say it
Tell me how they kill a man
Ah but don't tell momma
I won't tell papa
Well come back home, well come back home
Well come back home, well come back home


5.Just A Season

Written:roger mcguinn and jacques levy

If all my days was hills to climb and circles without reason
If all i was was passing time, my life was just a season

Dares and dreams and silly schemes and fillies running freely
I was young and no song was sung that didn't sound appealing
I'd have my fun with a shy girl and maybe hop a train
And i'd look back at her standing in the rain
Dirty hands and root beer stands and money like a river
Making deals to see how it feels to get more than you're giving
I'd have my fun with a gamblin man and bluff him with my face
And it's drinks for everybody in the place

If all my days was hills to climb and circles without reason
If all i was was passing time my life was just a season
If all my days was hills to climb and circles without reason
If all i was was passing time my life was just a season

Shouting crowds and mummer's shrouds and people going crazy
Always said what was in their heads it surely was amazing
I had my fun in the bull ring and never got a scar
It really wasn't hard to be a star

If all my days was hills to climb and circles without reason
If all i was was passing time my life was just a season