The Pony Man Lyrics - Gordon Lightfoot

When it's midnight on the meadow 

And the cats are in the shed 

And the river tells a story 

At the window by my bed 

If you listen very closely 

Be as quiet as you can 

In the yard you'll hear him 

It is the pony man 

We're always there to greet him 

When he tumbles in the town 

He leads a string of ponies 

Some are white and some are brown 

And they never seem to kick or bite 

They only want to play 

And they live on candy apples 

Instead of oats and hay 

And when we're all assembled 

He gives a soft command 

And we climb aboard our ponies 

As in a row they stand 

Then down the road we gallop 

And across the fields we fly 

And soon we all go sailing off 

Into the midnight sky 

And as we gaily rock along 

Beside a rippling sea 

There's Tom and Dick and Sally 

And Mary Joe and me 

And the pony man is leading 

'Cause he's traveled here before 

And he gives a whoop and a holler 

At Mr. Moons front door 

And then we stop to rest a while 

Where the Soda River glides 

Up to the slip comes a pirate ship 

To take us for a ride 

And the pony man's the captain 

And the children are the crew 

And we go in search of treasure 

And laugh the whole night through 

And when the hold is filled with gold 

And the sails begin to strain 

And the decks piled high with apple pie 

We head for port again 

And down the whirling star case 

So swift our ponies fly 

And were safely in our beds again 

When the sunbeams kiss the sky 

When it's midnight on the meadow 

And the cats are in the shed 

And the river tells a story 

At the window by my bed 

If you listen very closely 

Be as quiet as you can 

In the yard you'll hear him 

It is the pony man