The Black Horse

Lyrics

As I rode the grey horse that carried Merlin's name, I broke the wizard's curse to make the bold moss-trooper's claim Again I rode a lean grey in the mountains of the West, Through hanging bog and corry to Garry Goul-log's crest I've swung too many's the saddle since, on bay and chestnut too But I will ride the black horse 'till I ride home to you And I have rode the black horse with a lurcher at his heel From Lammermuir to Cheviot, and long to Teviotdale Across the windy Minchmoor and down through Liddesdale And over the crag of Rubers-law to Bowmont and to Kale For I will take the long track when every day is new And I will ride the black horse 'till I ride home to you I will ride the blackhorse all the summer long To hear a distant echo join the chorus of a song And when I cross the Ettrick or ford the Yarrow's flood In the autumn woods of Tweedsdale I'll feel you in my blood And as the winter westerlies come howling through Traquair I'll turn his head into the wind to taste you in the air And when spring creeps over Sutra Hill and nature loves anew Then I will mount the white horse And I'll ride home to you