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When it's midnight on the meadow and the cats are in the shed

And the river tells a story at the window by my bed

If you listen very closely be as quiet as you can

In the yard you'll hear him it is the pony man.

We're always there to greet him when he tumbles into town

He leads a string of ponies some are white and some are brown

And they never seem to kick or bite they only want to play

And they live on candy apples instead of oats and hay.

And when we're all assembled he gives a soft command

And we climb aboard our ponies as in a row they stand

Then down the road we gallop and across the fields we fly

And soon we all go sailing off into the midnight sky.

And as we gaily rock along beside a ripplin' sea

There's Tom 'n Dick 'n Sally and Mary Joe and me

And the pony man is leading cause he's travelled here before

And he gives a whoop and a holler at Mr. Moon's front door.

And as we stop to rest a while where the soda river glides

Up to the slip comes a pirate ship to take us for a ride

And the pony man's the captain and the children are the crew

And we go in search of treasure and laugh the whole night through.

And when the hold is filled with gold and the sails begin to strain

And the deck's piled high with apple pie we head for port again

And down the whirling staircase so swift our ponies fly

And we're safely in our beds again when the sunbeams kiss the sky.

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