Pinto on a Hill

©2021 Scott Halvorson / 5050songs Inc (ASCAP)
Release Date: 7/1/2021
Track duration: 04:11
ISRC: ushm82133390
UPC: 198000658632
Produced by Demo My Song®

Lyrics

Standin’ like a toy up on a shelf I couldn’t touch,
Grazin’ on a hillside lookin’ down at me with trust-less eyes,
A solitary pinto mare just beyond my clutch,
Tangled mane that drifted when the August air would sigh…
…tried out every horse cliche, shook a bucket in one hand,
The other hid a ruined bridle awkwardly behind my back,
Proffered grass I claimed to be the sweetest clover in the land,
Picked for my pinto princess quilted white and windswept black….

Pinto on a hill, the call of a whooping crane,
Trembling on the tracks from a long gone train,
Smoky scent of amber leaves dying in the fall,
A lost kiss from that someone you wanted most of all.

Drivin’ up to Devil’s Lake on old Two-eighty-one,
Through a litany of lonely towns remembered like a lullaby,
North of Minnewauken our LeSabre made the turn,
To misty barbed wire fields and the pinto in my mind’s eye…

“If you bring her in we’ll saddle up,” my dad would say with laughing eyes,
I swore I’d catch that horse one day!
I…
…pursued that pinto pony thru a pasture big as Time,
Galloping in the buffalo grass and the sun-drenched smell
of hay…
…ayyy-aaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy…..

Pinto on a hill, the call of a whooping crane,
Trembling on the tracks from a long gone train,
Smoky scent of amber leaves dying in the fall,
A lost kiss from that someone you wanted most of all…

Ohhhhhh,
Pinto on a hill, the call of a whooping crane,
Trembling on the tracks from a long gone train,
Smoky scent of amber leaves dying in the fall,
A lost kiss from that someone you wanted most of all.