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Horse For Sale

from Up Against The Sky by Dave Gunning

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Ray Stewart is a gem of a man and a great songwriter. He pitched the idea of writing a song about a house for sale but then I reminded him that Jamie and I had already written one of those a few years back. So he laughed and said."right, OK" then reached out a couple of days later about this concept - where you're trying to sell the house but instead advertising that it's a horse for sale. This basic story is a familiar one in rural communities all over. Smaller farms can no longer make a go of it like years ago when it was all family farming. I really love the way this song came together and I cried the first time that I heard the strings being played along with it. And I love the crickets that made their way onto the recording and helped create the mood. They'd been auditioning every night and trying to get my attention so I caved and placed the microphones by the windows.

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Horse For Sale
Dave Gunning/ Ray Stewart

When times were good and the workin' paid
We hardly make enough now to get through another day
With every morning sun we'd wake up to feed the cows
Our future was carved behind the plow

There's a horse for sale and a field where he can graze
With a 100 acre farm that's seen better days
The barn's falling down beside the house where I was raised
It's all yours if you buy this horse for sale

And the corn once grew up against the sky
And the wheat fields waved at the trains passing by
It was steel on steel now it's bone on bone
The old Massey used to run but now it won't

There's a horse for sale and a field where he can graze
With a 100 acre farm that's seen better days
The barn's falling down beside the house where I was raised
It's all yours if you buy this horse for sale

The rain didn't come and the sun didn't go
'til it flooded in the fall right before the snow

Things got hard and we struck out 
We managed to get by on little up to now
But for this old horse there's not much left
And we can't bear to see our old friend starve to death

There's a horse for sale and a field where he can graze
With a 100 acre farm that's seen better days
The barn's falling down beside the house where I was raised
It's all yours if you buy this horse for sale
All yours if you buy this horse for sale 

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from Up Against The Sky, released March 8, 2019
Dave Gunning/ Ray Stewart

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Dave Gunning Pictou, Nova Scotia

With a career spanning over two decades and 13 albums, Dave has gained a reputation for being a great storyteller and engaging performer who has the profound ability to take listeners on a musical journey through his songs. Much of his material is about the underdogs, heroes, family, the heart and reflects the messaging of social justice and carrying about the world around us. ... more

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