OT: Songs about horses

[nwhoopfan]

There's something about white horses apparently.

 

[nwhoopfan]

and this one

 

[nwhoopfan]

 

[nwhoopfan]

 

[nwhoopfan]

 

[Sonny44]

 

[CTBballfan243]

U2 - Who's gonna ride your wild horses. Great song off the Achtung Baby album. I would post the video from Youtube if I only knew how.

 

[JordyG]

U2 - Who's gonna ride your wild horses. Great song off the Achtung Baby album. I would post the video from Youtube if I only knew how.

Copy and paste here.

 

[nwhoopfan]

U2 - Who's gonna ride your wild horses. Great song off the Achtung Baby album. I would post the video from Youtube if I only knew how.

This one?

 

[EricLA]

One of the lesser known, but most beautiful of Elton John's songs...

 

[CTBballfan243]

This one?

That's the one!!!! Thank you

 

[UConnNick]

Not a song about horses, but a two minute video from The Smithsonian on "The Stone Pony"... a favorite music venue of Springsteen and many other musicians...

 

[pinotbear]

 

[pinotbear]

Having covered thoroughbred racing for 45 years the song that comes to mind is "Fugue for Tinhorns ("I got the horse right here...") from Guys and Dolls.

But horse racing is better known for sayings and poems than songs:

One white foot, ride him for your life.
Two white feet, give him to your wife.
Three white feet, keep him not a day.
Four white feet, send him far away.

Of course, Secretariat had three white stockings so I wouldn't put too much stock in that one.

Racing is a business and it takes a lot of jack,
To train and raise your horses but the way to get it back,
Is by putting over longshots with a nice, big, juicy bet,
But when you spread the word around, short odds is what you get.
So why should a guy who spends his time to train and race his plugs.
Go and tell a hot tip to a bunch of racetrack mugs?
--Ken Kling

"There are a hundred ways to lose a race."
Yeah, and the horse I bet knew every one of them."

"That horse is so slow he's just wearing horseshoes for luck."

"The horse I bet went off at 25/1.
Unfortunately he came home at ten after two."

 

[nwhoopfan]

This might be cheating a bit since it's an instrumental. Written by Bill Monroe. Performed here by fiddler Kenny Baker. I swear I heard Bill was inspired to write this song while playing at the Darrington Bluegrass Festival here in Washington. The impressive north face of Whitehorse Mountain is very prominent from the stage. Maybe this isn't true and has just become a legend. Anyway.



here's some images of the mountain from the town

whitehorse mountain seen from darrington - Google Search

 

[nwhoopfan]

a two minute video from The Smithsonian on "The Stone Pony"

Thanks. That just reminded me of the band Linda Ronstadt was in early in her career. This is a different arrangement of the song than I've heard before.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

A better version of Elton with Luciano and I'm skipping to the drama:



Gotta say some of the realiest moments of my life have been on horseback and around these wonders on four legs. Gentle gods of pure instinct.

 

[JordyG]

A better version of Elton with Luciano and I'm skipping to the drama:



Gotta say some of the realiest moments of my life have been on horseback and around these wonders on four legs. Gentle gods of pure instinct.

What interesting is walking around NYC, turning a corner and seeing an officer mounted on one of these magnificent animals.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

What interesting is walking around NYC, turning a corner and seeing an officer mounted on one of these magnificent animals.

I actually contributed a real nice guy to the department. He had to pass a suitability test, etc, and he did; sweet and steady. Really big, imposing bay, but he didn't work for me 'cuz he seemed so laid back, lazy. In his second year with the Force he started having seizures of a sort I'm told and he was retired to an upstate farm where retired police horses go.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

 

[RockyMTblue2]

So, yeah, it's sorta a religion with me:



That was a fun movie; but the horse(s) they had play him were donkeys compared to Secretariat.

 

[JordyG]

I actually contributed a real nice guy to the department. He had to pass a suitability test, etc, and he did; sweet and steady. Really big, imposing bay, but he didn't work for me 'cuz he seemed so laid back, lazy. In his second year with the Force he started having seizures of a sort I'm told and he was retired to an upstate farm where retired police horses go.

Sad. But it seems that big soldier earned a retirement.

So, yeah, it's sorta a religion with me:



That was a fun movie; but the horse(s) they had play him were donkeys compared to Secretariat.

Yeah. Hard to find a horse that big that could at least run. Wasn't it Kelso though that used to stop, pose and preen for the cameras?

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Sad. But it seems that big soldier earned a retirement.

Yeah. Hard to find a horse that big that could at least run. Wasn't it Kelso though that used to stop, pose and preen for the cameras?

Kelso was a magnificent runner. I don't recall him and a camera romance, although it is not that unusual. They are flight animals and hyper aware of what is going on around them and naturally curious. Once they figure out you aren't trying to kill them with that thing that goes click they tend to play along.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Does a song that includes the word "backstretch" count?

 

[Bigboote]

Emmylou singing Leonard Cohen. It doesn't get much better.