One of my favorite songs that Gordon Lightfoot recorded is "Pony Man." Here is why: For the past eight years I have hitchhiked all over the United States. Some nights, I would not get a ride and would find myself out in the middle of nowhere. So I would slip my headphones into my ears and turn on the beautiful music of Gordon Lightfoot. Then, I would hitch up my pack and start walking down the road...singing: "When it's midnight on the meadow and the cats are in the shed and the river tells a story at the window by my bed...if you listen very closely, be as quiet as you can...in the yard you'll hear him...it is the pony man."
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