Just Me and These Ponies (For Christmas This Year)

I road up in those hills
Like when we all used to go
Cut a tree like the one
That we used to alone [?]
Behind the old sorrel mare
I drag it down off the slopes
Trimmed it up in the corner
With tinsel and hoped

I ain't heard from my son
And I won't I expect
The other's flight
It was cancelled
At least that's what he said
My daughter's takin' the kids again
To Maui this year
I guess don't blame em'
It's pretty cold round here

[Chorus]:Thank Christ for these horses
Or I'd be here at home
Eighty years old spending Christmas alone
A blizzard is howling
And night it grows near
It's just me and the ponies
For Christmas this year

It's bitterly cold with three feet of snow
And this wouldn't be home
If the wind didn't blow
Can't get out of the yard
I'm snowed in with the drifts
And no one is coming to open these gates

If I were my father I'd hitch up a team
Take the sleigh to the neighbour's for brandy and cream
But that world is gone
It's all dissappeared
It's just me and the ponies
For Christmas this year

[Chorus]

This old barn is still standing
Not much longer I think
I can see the north star
Through the holes in the chink
Tonight it's oats for my pals
And me a bottle of cheer
It's just me and the ponies
For Christmas this year