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A Dancer, A Horse, A Song

from Tanglefoot by RB Lonetree

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A Dancer, A Horse, A Song (Fairley/Lonetree)
((C) Medicine Road Music, Tanglefoot, 2007)

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A Dancer. A Horse. A Song

I’ve got a horse called Mister Bojangles
Named after the dancer in the song
And yeah, he can dance alright! He’s full of fire
He’s loyal and he’s strong

Bay Waler, burgundy colour
Sixteen hands high
No show-pony, but he’s quick I tell you
The boy can really fly

I like to think of that old dancer in the song
Clicking his heels in his ragged shirt and jumping so high
I think of him as me and Bojangles ride together
Beneath the endless sky

And I think of that poor dancer
Behind those county jail bars
As me and Bojangles ride the boundary line
Free beneath the uncaged moon and stars

And I sing to him…

Chorus
Mr Bojangles, Mr Bojangles
Come on and dance

One time out riding I fell from ol’ Bojangles
His back left hoof split me deep over the chin
It cut me a second mouth to wear
Set in an awful bloody grin

The skin hung loose. It wobbled as I walked
And that new mouth, slurring in stupid stutters, rudely talked
It said; ‘Boy this is serious, real serious you know
Now home is seven miles across the valley, that way I guess, now go

And my heart beat furious inside my breast
The blood, sticky and warm, ran all down my chest
And the wound, so deep and wide, but, don’t you know
I made it home with Mr Bojangles as my guide

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from Tanglefoot, track released January 1, 2008
Fairley/Lonetree

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RB Lonetree Nimbin, Australia

RB Lonetree, is a singer/song-writer, recording and performing musician. He also writes and publishes poetry, short stories and political essays.

RB Lonetree lives on a large farm with his partner and two children in Bunjalung country, near the town of Nimbin, on the far north coast of New South Wales, Australia.
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