{"id":18315,"date":"2011-02-24T03:47:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T08:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/18315\/picture-circle-cowgirl-runaway-horse\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T03:47:45","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T08:47:45","slug":"picture-circle-cowgirl-runaway-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/18315\/picture-circle-cowgirl-runaway-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture Circle For A Cowgirl and Her Runaway Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seemed like it was going to be just the kind of go-out-and-meet-new-people at sober places event that I\u2019ve been looking for in my neighborhood. I found the listing on the calendar of the Seattle Ukulele Players Association. It showed a \u201cukulele cricle\u201d on the last Wednesday of every month not too far from my new place. In fact, it\u2019s pretty much on my way home from school! Today was going to be great. I\u2019d finish my last class of the day, and be able to stop in at this \u201cukulele circle\u201d without any detour or anything. Well… because of the impending blizzard here in Seattle (blizzard defined as anything more than an inch and a half of snow), the instructor ended class an hour early… so I had some time to kill.
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I keep putting \u201cukulele circle\u201d in quotation marks because I have no idea what a ukulele circle is. I can sort of picture it in my head, but I really have no idea what goes on at one. I was hoping to find out tonight\u2026 Yeah\u2026 hoping to.<\/span><\/p>\n

This very short video blog shows what happened. <\/span><\/p>\n


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Yeah.. So that kinda sucked. <\/span><\/p>\n

Anyways, I got home and decided to do my own ukulele circle of one! Recorded a new cover of a song I have admired for many years: The Ballad of The Runaway Horse.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s where the circle part comes in. I\u2019d like YOUR <\/strong>help in making the video for the song! I used to do this game on MySpace from time to time, and people had fun with it. It\u2019s really quite simple, and you\u2019ll get to feel like part of the process. Most of you have seen my \u201cgreen screen\u201d videos before. To make those, I need pictures. And considering this is a five minute song, I need lots of them. Please read the lyrics below. <\/span><\/p>\n

Say a prayer for the cowgirl her horse ran away
\nShe’ll walk till she finds him her darlin’ her stray
\nBut the river’s in flood and the roads are awash
\nAnd the bridges break up in the panic of loss
\nAnd there’s nothin’ to follow nowhere to go
\nHe’s gone like the summer gone like the snow
\nAnd the crickets are breaking her heart with their song
\nAs the day caves in and the night is all wrong
\nDid she dream it was he who went galloping past
\nAnd bent down the fern broke open the grass
\nAnd printed the mud with the well hammered shoe
\nThat she nailed to his speed in the dreams of her youth
\nAnd although he goes grazin’ a minute away
\nShe tracks him all night she tracks him all day
\nAnd she’s behind to his presence except to compare
\nHer injury here with his punishment there
\nThen at home on a branch on a high stream a songbird sings out so suddenly
\nAnd the sun is warm and the soft winds ride on a willow tree by the riverside
\nAh the world is sweet and the world is wide
\nHe’s there where the light and the darkness divide
\nAnd the steam’s comin’ off him he’s huge and he’s shy
\nAnd he steps on the moon when he paws at the sky
\nAnd he comes to her hand but he’s not really tame
\nHe longs to be lost she longs for the same
\nAnd he’ll bolt and he’ll plunge through the first open pass
\nTo roll and to feed in the sweet mountain grass
\nOr he’ll make a break for the high plateau
\nWhere there’s nothing above and nothing below
\nIt’s time for their burden the whip and the spur
\nWell she ride with him or will he ride with her
\nSo she binds herself to her galloping steed
\nAnd he binds himself to the woman in need
\nAnd there is no space just left and right
\nAnd there is no time but there is day and night
\nThen she leans on his neck and whispers low whither thou goest I will go
\nAnd they turn as one and the head for the plain
\nNo need for the whip oh no need for the rein
\nNow the clasp of this union who fastens it tight
\nWho snaps it asunder the very next night
\nSome say it’s him some say it’s her some say love’s like smoke beyond all repair
\nSo my darlin’ my darlin’ just let it go by that old silhouette on the great western sky
\nAnd I’ll pick out a tune and they’ll move right along
\nAnd they’re gone like smoke and they’re gone like this song
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Now, all you really have to do is copy and paste your favorite lines from the song into Google images, Photobucket or Flickr. Then, post as many pictures as you want into the comments of this blog. I\u2019ll use them in the video! Very simple. <\/span><\/p>\n

Alternately, you can expand your search and find images that you think fit the song as a whole. <\/span><\/p>\n

Here are some examples\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

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This one I got by looking for “horse girl grass”
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Of course, I am hopeful for tasteful pictures, but they don’t have to be!<\/p>\n

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So please, join the circle, have fun and help me make a video. By the way the snow is coming down right now, I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll be going to class tomorrow. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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