Stone Blind Horses

Album: The Ruffian's Misfortune

Written by Ray Wylie Hubbard

There are some saints that have been forgotten

Like most of my drunken prayers

They say there’s a heaven somewhere above the yonder

Where there’s no more crosses to bear

 

Now there’s ghosts along the highways

And there’s storms out on the seas

My only hope is somewhere in that heaven

Some one is saying a prayer for me

 

I been ridin’ stone blind horses

Never seeing a reason to believe

Hey sweet Genevieve say a prayer for me

The wild young cowboys, old drunks, paramours and thieves

 

The high slurred whistle of a red wing blackbird

Sounds like he’s singing oh that I might die

It’s a song for those that have fallen

Unrepentant with no more alibis

 

I been ridin’ stone blind horses

Never seeing a reason to believe

Hey sweet Genevieve say a prayer for me

The wild young cowboys, old drunks, paramours and thieves