Music: M.L. Hammond/D.Woodhead lyrics: M.L. Hammond

I’ve always loved the big draft breeds. (And no, I didn’t steal the idea from Jethro Tull – I found out about their great song, “Heavy Horses,” after I’d written mine…)

Chorus:
Curves like melodies, muscles like chords
and the heavy horse rhythms are steady and strong
curves like melodies, muscles like chords
and the jingle of the harness is the heavy horse song

Handsome Clydesdale, kind and willing
silky feathers and broad white blaze
the British sent thousands to the colonies
to build the Empire’s glory days

Belgian beauty, shades of caramel
he’s got stamina, strength and size
in pulling matches at your county fair
chances are he’s gonna take the prize

Chorus

Massive Shire, gentle giant
carried armoured knights of yore
he pulled the plough in times of peace
and hauled the heavy guns of war

Elegant Percheron, he’s got Arabian blood
they say, and it makes him smart
the colour of mist or as black as night
he’s got the movement and he’s got heart

Now some believe you will rise again
when machines stand still ’cause the earth’s run dry
then we’ll need your strength to turn the soil
and bring us home under a darkening sky

Curves like melodies, muscles like chords
and the heavy horse rhythms are steady and strong
curves like melodies, muscles like chords
and the jingle of the harness is the heavy horse song