James Keelaghan - Number 37
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She wore number 37, her horse was chestnut brown
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I saw her at a rodeo in a high plains western town
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Underneath the turquoise sky a thunderstorm was rolling in
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The infield getting sticky, the crowd was wearing thin
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Now, I'm not for barrel racing, I cannot say I'd gone
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To see some woman ride flat out, as she bounced and turned for home
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And riding hell-for-leather, the bit between her teeth
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It's poetry in motion
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She wore the number 37, she was the seventh one to ride
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She showed no hint of nerves and she sat her horse with pride
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Horse and rider leapt together, I wished that I could hear
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The words she spoke to spur him on as she leaned down to his ear
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They rounded the first barrel, from the bleachers I could see
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She didn't use a riding crop, for the horse ran like a breeze
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'Round barrel two I stammered, she closed the figure eight
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When up popped barrel three as she was lingering, yeah
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I know she didn't use a riding crop, she barely used her spurs
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She used hands and knees, she used gentle, loving words
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I'd like to say she won that day, that wouldn't be the fact
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She crossed the line in '69 in the middle of the pack
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You'd never know she'd lost, she grinned from ear to ear
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She stroked the charger's neck and once more whispered in his ear
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She was happy that they'd done that well, nobody got hurt
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She got all the speed she wanted using gentle loving words
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So hats off to sweet 37, wherever you may be
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The pleasure's not from winning, it's in riding wild and free
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And one thing that I won that day, you can whip and you can curse
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But you'll never [ ? ] and ride if you use gentle loving words
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She wore number 37, her horse was chestnut brown
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I saw her at a rodeo in a high plains western town
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