She comes down from Yellow Mountain
On a dark, flat land she rides
On a pony she named Wildfire
With a whirlwind by her side
On a cold Nebraska night
Oh, they say she died one winter
When there came a killing frost
And the pony she named Wildfire
Busted down it's stall
In a blizzard he was lost [ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/m/michael_martin_murphey/wildfire.html ]
She ran calling Wildfire [x3]
By the dark of the moon I planted
But there came an early snow
There's been a hoot-owl howling by my window now
For six nights in a row
She's coming for me, I know
And on Wildfire we're both gonna go
We'll be riding Wildfire [x3]
On Wildfire we're gonna ride
Gonna leave sodbustin' behind
Get these hard times right on out of our minds
Riding Wildfire
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by Unregistered on Dec 18th 2011 12:06 am
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She ran calling wildfire cos she was searching for her horse!!!
by Unregistered on Dec 18th 2011 12:03 am
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This is so sad... All websites have this song wrong! First, the lyrics are wrong... And wildfire was a girl horse not a boy! (busted down "its" stall, not "his" stall)
Wildfire is the one who died not the lady... And the later they get rescued by the legendary horse ghost and relieved of their troubles... Pls fix the lyrics, especially early on when u refer to wildfire as "he" was lost (in a blizzard "she" was lost!!! ) clearly shes a female horse! The owl part is wrong too... :(
This song is about a horse named wildfire. It was on a cold nebraskan night. She had died one winter.
by Unregistered on Sep 19th 2011 10:44 am
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Yes james0tucson, it makes me wonder if the lyrics date back a long way. It reads like a dirt farmers story.
Though i didn't think it was necessarily literal about the farmer dying, but dreaming of escaping and being reunited with his loved one, on the animal she loved.
For some reason i thought the girl might have been his daughter, i think because the horse is a pony. Either way it's a wonderful bitter-sweet song.
It's quite a literal ballad, but some people don't catch that it's told from the point of view of a man whose wife has died. He's lost his wife and a horse in the same storm, has now lost a corn crop, and is prepared for his own death.
The lines "gonna leave sodbustin' behind / get these hard times ... Out of our minds" has always struck me in a way that 400 pages of grapes of wrath could not.