And soon we all go sailing off
He gives a soft command
And they live on candy apples
And the sails begin to strain
In the yard you'll hear him
When it's midnight on the meadow
Up to the slip comes a pirate ship
Be as quiet as you can
Instead of oats and hay
If you listen very closely
If you listen very closely
As in a row they stand
And the cats are in the shed
And we go in search of treasure
And across the fields we fly
And they never seem to kick or bite
To take us for a ride
Where the Soda River glides
And as we gaily rock along
And Mary Joe and me
And the pony man's the captain
And when we're all assembled
And we climb aboard our ponies
And then we stop to rest a while
And the pony man is leading
So swift our ponies fly
And the river tells a story
Then down the road we gallop
In the yard you'll hear him
And were safely in our beds again
And the river tells a story
'Cause he's traveled here before
It is the pony man
Beside a rippling sea
There's Tom and Dick and Sally
And down the whirling star case
Be as quiet as you can
And laugh the whole night through
Into the midnight sky
When the sunbeams kiss the sky
And when the hold is filled with gold
They only want to play
We're always there to greet him
He leads a string of ponies
At the window by my bed
At the window by my bed
Some are white and some are brown
And the decks piled high with apple pie
When he tumbles in the town
And the children are the crew
At Mr. Moons front door
And he gives a whoop and a holler
We head for port again
