4th part of the trilogy - Horses of the World by John Warner - from his CD The Sea & The Soil. John's CDS are available from his website


HORSES OF THE WORLD reprise
(John Warner © 1991)

So if you should see me learning on a nameless paddock fence
And I'm scratching some old stock horse at the ears
You might come and share the moment and the apples that I bring
For humankind's companion down the years

And I dreamed I stood upon a hill above a grassy plain
Where the windswept sedges heaved like the restless sea
And I saw horses flash like jewels before the setting sun
Wild eyes and flowing manes in ancient glory

So 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
All the horses that shaped the fruitful land