Speckled Roan

(album: Make Way - 1961)

I used to ride a little old speckled roan
I told him lots of things I wouldn't have told at home
I said to the speckled roan, said I, "I'm so lonesome I could die, but I ain't gonna stay lonesome very long"

I used to ride a little ole yellow dun
Mending fences, rode him in the rain and sun
I said to the yellow dun, said I, "I'm gonna be rich or know the reason why. Gonna take my money to town and find the fun"

And then I bought me a big old roping gray
Roped for money and I made it ev'ry day
But I said to the roping gray, said I, "I sure do miss that prairie sky"
And he let out laughing and he surely knowed the way

I brought my money home and I brought it home to stay
Couldn't have stayed in town, not another day
I'm gonna live out under a prairie sky
Gonna live out there till the day I die with the roan and the dun and the big old roping gray