Ponderosa (Live)

[Intro]
Thank you
This song dates to my cowboy days
Um, this takes place up the tree line in Colorado
As high as you can graze a horse
It's called "Ponderosa"

[Verse 1]
Ponderosa and pinyon pine
The high chaparral 'neath the borderline
Tryin' hard to lose, tryin' hard to find
Horse and a mule way past summertime
This was my world, this was all I knew
Barbed wire and blankets and a steel horseshoe
No luck in leavin' ten thousand clues
No one will find or follow you
Ponderosa, ponderosa and pinyon pine

[Verse 2]
Boarded windows, stone fireplace
Horse tack on shelving in a cluttered spacе
Not at all a place for calico and lace
Not wherе I thought I would ever see your face
My father told me this was no life
With the wind so bold and the frost a knife
But no book learnin' can tell it right
'Bout the solitude, 'bout the snowy white
Ponderosa, ponderosa and pinyon pine

[Verse 3]
White the shoulders, black velvet night
Unlaced and cold in the flickering light
Warm hands fumble with the button eyes
Coarse and humble fingers untie
How did you find me, how did you know
With the blizzard blindin' pilin' up the snow?
Shack on the edge of that borderline
A crackling fire of resinous pine
Ponderosa, ponderosa and pinyon pine