Songs about horses and riding

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The ex (?!) has asked me to compile a mix for her barn buddies and their upcoming horse show. Targeting 30+ babes in cool boots and britches. Here's her thought process to date:

Aerosmith - Back in the Saddle
Rolling Stones - Wild Horses
Doors - Riders on the Storm
REO Speedwagon - Riding the Storm Out
Blues Image - Ride Captain Ride
Edgar Winter Group - Free Ride

― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Thursday, 24 July 2003 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Leonard Cohen: ballad of the absent mare
Palace doing (I think?) a Mekons cover: horses
Palace again: riding
PJ Harvey: horses in my dreams
Sally Doherty: watching the horses
Haley Bonar: save a horse, ride a cowboy
Mary Timony: 14 horses, all the painted horses

― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Thursday, 24 July 2003 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?" -- U2
"Land" -- Patti Smith ("Horses" is a section of that song)

― David A. (Davant), Thursday, 24 July 2003 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

"These Boots are Made for Walkin" ought to do, it's at sort of a canter as well

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 24 July 2003 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

ginuwine -pony
salt n pepa -giddy up

― reo fordecor, Thursday, 24 July 2003 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

jonathan richman - since she started to ride

― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 24 July 2003 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

and NOT mentioning

belle and sebastian - judy and the dream of horses

'cause i don't quite see how it's gonna work between, say, blues image and the edgar winter group.

― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 24 July 2003 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

though belle and seb would segue quite nicely out of

america - a horse with no name

― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 24 July 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

You can actually HEAR the horses in these (usually in the rhythm):

Ramrods - Ghost Riders in the Sky
Prince Buster - Texas Holdup
Osmonds - Crazy Horses (blueprint for "Back in the Saddle," I swear)
Poison - Back to the Rocking Horse (son of "Back in the Saddle")

these are pervy:

Lee Dorsey - Ride Your Pony
Disco Tex and his Sex-o-Lettes - Ride a Wild Horse
Blake Baxter - Ride 'Em Boy
Jamie Principle - Baby Wants to Ride (X-Rated)
Laid Back - White Horse (also about cocaine or whatever, of course)
Disco Texas and the Sex-O-L

― chuck, Thursday, 24 July 2003 23:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Oops.

But "Ride Captain Ride" is about a BOAT!!

― chuck, Thursday, 24 July 2003 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

speaking of blueprints for "back in the saddle":

gene autry - back in the saddle again

― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 24 July 2003 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)

divine comedy 'the dogs and the horses'
trash can sinatras 'white horses'

― keith (keithmcl), Thursday, 24 July 2003 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Palace doing (I think?) a Mekons cover: horses

it's on a sally timms solo record from the mid-90s i think.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 24 July 2003 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)

"Goodbye, Old Paint" - recorded by thousands

"Goodbye, Old Paint
I'm leavin Cheyenne"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 July 2003 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"Camptown Races"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 July 2003 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"Bet my money on the bob-tailed nag
Somebody bet on the bay"

goes down as one of the greatest lyrics in the history of recorded music

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 July 2003 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

(or unrecorded, for that matter!)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 July 2003 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"I Break Horses," Smog

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Friday, 25 July 2003 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Khan - 'Ride Me'

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 25 July 2003 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Divine Comedy & Father Ted: "My Lovely Horse"

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 25 July 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

psychopathia sexualis - lenny bruce

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 25 July 2003 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Since you seem to be in the classic rock neck of the woods, it's not too bad to break out:

"I Dig A Pony" -- Beatles
"Chestnut Mare" -- Byrds
"Pony Boy" -- Allman Brothers Band

Yee-haw.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Friday, 25 July 2003 01:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Michael Martin Murphy - Wildfire

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Friday, 25 July 2003 01:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"Ride a White Swan" -- T. Rex
"Bottle of Smoke" -- The Pogues

An excuse to post these lyrics, really:

Thanks and praises
Thanks to Jesus
I bet on the Bottle of Smoke
I went to hell
And to the races
To bet on the Bottle of Smoke

The day being clear
The sky being bright
He came up on the left
Like a streak of light
Like a drunken fuck
On a Saturday night
Up came the Bottle of Smoke

Twenty fucking five to one
Me gambling days are done
I bet on a horse called the Bottle of Smoke
And my horse won

Stewards inquiries
Swift and fiery
I had the Bottle of Smoke
Inquisitions and suppositions
I had the Bottle of Smoke

Fuck the stewards
A trip to Lourdes
Might give the old fuckers
The power of sight
Screaming springers and stoppers
And call out coppers
But the money still gleams in my hand like a light

Bookies cursing
Cars reversing
I had the Bottle of Smoke
Glasses steaming
Vessels bursting
I had the Bottle of Smoke
Slip a fifty to the wife
And for each brat a crisp new five
To give me a break on a Saturday night
When I had the Bottle of Smoke
Priests and maidens
Drunk as pagans
They had the Bottle of Smoke
Sins forgiven and celebrations
They had the Bottle of Smoke

Fuck the Yanks
And drink their wives
The moon is clear
The sky is bright
I'm happy as the horses shite
Up came the Bottle of Smoke

― David A. (Davant), Friday, 25 July 2003 01:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Mustang Sally?

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Friday, 25 July 2003 04:25 (twenty-two years ago)

On the unrecorded tip, my uncle Brad has a great song he wrote about a girl who's so big she's almost like a horse:

Lordy lordy Laura, well she's six feet tall
Lordy lordy Laura makes me feel so small
But I know she's just waitin to carry me hoooome
Riding full-saddle on my big bay roan

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 July 2003 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)

>But "Ride Captain Ride" is about a BOAT!!

Reason #56,347,457 why she's the Artist Formerly Known as Wife.

― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Friday, 25 July 2003 07:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Seven Horses In The Sky - The Pebbles

― daarkbee, Friday, 25 July 2003 08:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Wild Horses - Gino Vannelli
(aaarghhh)

― daarkbee, Friday, 25 July 2003 08:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Iggy Pop, "Dog Food"

― dave q, Friday, 25 July 2003 08:31 (twenty-two years ago)

This song always makes me cry, in spite of the triumph of the horse involved and the silly "Lal dee day dee o the diddle lol de day o" bits:

CREEPING JANE
I'll sing you a song and a very pretty one
Concerning Creeping Jane o
Why she never saw a mare nor a gelding in her life
That she valued at the worth of half a pin
Lal dee day dee o the diddle lol de day o
She never saw a mare or a gelding in her life
That she valued at the worth of half a pin, lal the day

When Creeping Jane to the racecourse came
The gentlemen giggled all around o
And all they had to say concerning little Jane
She's not able for to gallop o'er the ground
Lal dee day dee o the diddle lol de day o
And all they had to say concerning little Jane
She's not able for to gallop o'er the ground, lal the day

Now when they came to the first milepost
Creeping Jane he was far behind o
But the lad flung his whip into the bonny little maid
And he says, My little lassie never mind
Lal dee day dee o the diddle lol the day o
Then the rider flung his whip into the bonny little maid
And he says, My little lassie never mind, lal the day

Now when that they came to the third milepost
Creeping Jane he looked blithe and smart o
And then she lifted up her little lily white hoof
And she fleered past them all like a dart
Lal dee day dee o the diddle lie de day o
And then she lifted up her little lily white hoof
And she fleered past them all like a dart, lal the day

Now Creeping Jane the race has won
And scarcely sweat one drop o
She's able for to gallop the ground all again
While the others is not able for to trot
Lal dee day dee o the diddle lie de day o
She's able for to gallop the ground all again
While the others is not able for to trot, lal the day

Now Creeping Jane is dead and gone
And her body lies on the cold ground o
I'll go down to my master and tell the boy today
To keep her little body from the ground
Lal dee day dee o the diddle lie de day o
I'll go down to her master and tell the boy today
Just to keep her little body from the ground

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 25 July 2003 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)

"Tennessee Stud" Johnny Cash

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 25 July 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Tori Amos - Horses
Moloko - On My Horsey
Tom Waits - Pony
Michael J Sheehy - Donkey Ride Straight To Hell

anything by Ride would presumably count too.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 25 July 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

WEEN'S "MR. WOULD YOU PLEASE HELP MY PONY?" IS URGENT AND KEY MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 July 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Prince "Horny Pony"

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 25 July 2003 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

'Ride Or Die' Jay Z
'Ride Or Die' Bone
'Ride Or Die' Cash meezy
'Ride Or Die' Dogg House Click
'Ride Or Die' Jayo Felony
'Ryde Or Die' DMX
'Ryde Or Die' LOX
'Ride With Me' Nelly
'Ride With Me' Capone
'We Ridin' Fat Joe
'All My Niggas (Ride)' Fresh Kid Ice
'Let Me Ride' Dr Dre

― sean g, Friday, 25 July 2003 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"Holly Up On Poppy," XTC

He loves his daughter
and she really loves her horse
it's all a bit much

― Haikunym, Friday, 25 July 2003 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Mike Oldfield - On Horseback
Of course, the lyrics are pretty godawful. But maybe you can slowly get them all to listen to Ommadawn instead. Hooray!

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Friday, 25 July 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

gygax, are you sure that "horses" is on a sally timms solo record? 'cause the one i have from the mid-90s doesn't have it. i'm almost positive that it's a straight-up oldham tune.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 25 July 2003 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Spinning Wheel - "Ride a painted pony let the spinning wheel turn.."

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 25 July 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Rory ride Me raw-vaselines

― Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 25 July 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

that's about a bike!

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 25 July 2003 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

>Iggy Pop, "Dog Food"

Ah, the perfect secret bonus track at the end (after all, this mix is for the ex). Many thanx, all.

― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Saturday, 26 July 2003 06:59 (twenty-two years ago)

"Chosen One," Smog

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Saturday, 26 July 2003 07:09 (twenty-two years ago)

"Daddy I Want A Pony" by the Period Pains. I want to find this for my girlfriend. This will prolly never happen though

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 26 July 2003 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

My Lovely Horse

― jellybean (jellybean), Saturday, 26 July 2003 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"Richard's Ride" (K.C. Douglas w/ Richard Riggins on harmonica)

― bflaska, Sunday, 27 July 2003 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

"pony express" by ted nugent, did anyone say that already

― duane, Monday, 28 July 2003 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)

"New Pony" by Bob Dylan (from street legal)

"T.B. Blues" by Champion Jack Dupree ("I got the TB*, the TB is killin me"

(*T.B. = thoroughbred ... horse joke ... get it, cowboys and gals?)

Here's a real one -- "I Ride an Old Paint"

― bflaska, Monday, 28 July 2003 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

hey DJ Mencap i've got that Period Pains track. i can put it up on slsk if you like?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 28 July 2003 05:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"SLOW RIDE"!!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 28 July 2003 05:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"My Baby Wants to Ride" - DJ Dagwood

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 28 July 2003 05:28 (twenty-two years ago)

>"SLOW RIDE"!!!

Not to mention Foghat's cover of "Honey Hush" ("hi ho, silver, away!")

other notables:

Poco - Legend
Bruce Springsteen - Pony Boy
Belinda Carlisle - Runaway Horses
Los Lobos - Jenny's Got a Pony
Calexico - All the Pretty Horses
Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive
Van Halen - Happy Trails

― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Monday, 28 July 2003 05:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Eh, these might be a bit tangental --

Mirah - Cold Cold Water
Sweeney Todd - If Wishes Were Horses

― brooke edel (brookedel), Monday, 28 July 2003 06:51 (twenty-two years ago)

gygax, are you sure that "horses" is on a sally timms solo record? 'cause the one i have from the mid-90s doesn't have it. i'm almost positive that it's a straight-up oldham tune.

hey you ms. lauren, i just googled it, it's from her 1988 album Somebody's Rockin' My Dreamboat credited to Sally Timms and the Drifting Cowboys (w/ Jon Langford).

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 28 July 2003 07:04 (twenty-two years ago)

RE; Period Pains: Sadly Electric Sound of Jim I am in the techie stone age, but thanks for the offer. I have it on a cassette somewhere actually.

Erm, 'Ride Darkhorse Ride' - 3 Inches of Blood

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 28 July 2003 08:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Dispatch - Flying Horses

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 04:54 (twenty-two years ago)

the plums "ride"

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 05:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Chris made me remember the Oak Ridge Boys with their smash hit "Elvira"!

"my heart's on fie-yer
for Elvah-ruh
(giddyap, a-oom boppa oom boppa mau mau)"

I always thought it was about the betitted gothy one

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 06:04 (twenty-two years ago)

The Handsome Family, "Pony"

Cowboy Junkies, "A Horse In The Country"

Dr. Octagon, "General Hospital"

― Paul Eater (eater), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"horseriding, painting and lovemaking" - the male nurse

― cameron, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

there's that Add N to (X) tune from Avant Hard with the creepy horsenoise. Always reminds of one of Catherine Deneuve's fantasies in Belle Du Jour.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

"If you wanna be rich / You've got to be a bitch"

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

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