Charley Noble mentioned this song earlier.

John Warner has made his recording of this song playable on his web site. (Go to that page and click on the "notes" symbol in front of the song title.) Here's my transcription. Note there is one phrase I couldn't understand, represented by an ellipsis, and I'm not too sure about "the one fine child of earth."


HORSES OF THE WORLD
As sung by John Warner on "The Sea and the Soil"

CHORUS: And I want to say a word of thanks to the horses of the world,
Whose solid backs and heaving lungs have placed us where we stand.
Their eyes speak for their spirits that through the endless years
Have shaped us all as we shaped the fruitful land,
Such gentle souls who shaped the fruitful land.

And I saw a fertile valley where a black and heavy soil
Promised golden grain and fruit upon the bough,
And sweating giant Clydesdales thrust their shoulders at the toil,
And the loam rolled back like the sea behind the plough. CHORUS

And a thousand lowing cattle spread out on the western plain,
And the thunder spoke from out the roaring clouds,
And the stockman rode to calm the herd through squalls of lashing hail
On their … strong and proud.

So I'll keep an apple by me when I lean upon a fence
Where a palomino or some chestnut mare might graze—
A present from a passerby, the one fine child of earth
Whose hoofprints pioneered our present ways. CHORUS