Flying Burrito Brothers - Cody, Cody Lyrics

Legend of Ol' Tenbrookes
written: B. Leadon, L. Murray, and Dawson; adapted from traditional song
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Tenbrookes was a big gray horse with a low-down, shaggy mane
All the pride of old Memphis, outrun the Memphis train
And out in California, a legend in her time
A mare by the name of Molly got aboard the railroad line

And they run
Run, run, Molly, run
Tenbrookes's gonna beat you
Beneath the mornin' sun

At the fairgrounds in Memphis, the second of July
Ol' Tenbrookes and Molly are rarin', set to fly
One hundred thousand people come to see a race that day
A hundred thousand people, and you could hear them say

"Let 'em run
Run, run, Molly, run
Tenbrookes's gonna beat you
Beneath the mornin' sun"

And side by side to the finish line
A-runnin' to the end
Ol' Tenbrookes and Molly come a-flyin' like the wind
But just across the finish line, ol' Tenbrookes took a spill
All the faigrounds were silent and every heart stood still

And early that evening, there in the shade
We bid farewell to Tenbrookes in a coffin ready-made
And not a soul will ever know, not even to this day
If we could ask ol' Molly, I'm sure that she would say

"How he run
Run, Lord, how he run
Tenbrookes and Molly
Beneath the morning sun
And they run
Run, run, Molly, run
Tenbrookes's gonna beat you
Beneath the mornin' sun

 

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