{"id":2847,"date":"2021-10-06T05:26:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T05:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=2847"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:45:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:45:02","slug":"silver-was-a-racehorse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/silver-was-a-racehorse\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Stewball was a Racehorse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69ea637f15ec51071987011' value='69ea637f15ec51071987011'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69ea637f15ec51071987011' value='Show More'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69ea637f15ec51071987011' value='Show Less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69ea637f15ec51071987011' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Show More<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69ea637f15ec51071987011' ><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-weight: 900\">Peter Paul and Mary<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p class=\"ujudUb\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 900;\"><strong>Old Stewball was a [D] racehorse, and I wish he were [Em] mine.\u00a0\u00a0 He never drank [A] water, he always drank [ D G A ] wine.\u00a0 His bridle was [D] silver, his mane it was [Em] gold.\u00a0 And the worth of his [A] saddle has never been [ D G A ] told.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ujudUb\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 900;\"><strong>Oh the fairgrounds were [D] crowded, and Stewball was [Em] there,\u00a0\u00a0 But the betting was [A] heavy on the bay and the [ D G A ] mare.\u00a0 And a-way up [D] yonder, ahead of them [Em] all, came a [A] prancin&#8217; and a-dancin&#8217; my noble [ D G A ] Stewball.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 900;\"><strong>Well now they are [D] riding, \u2019bout halfway [Em] around,\u00a0 And the gray mare she [A] stumbled and fell on the [ D G A ] ground.\u00a0 Now prancing up [D] yonder, and keeping the lead [Em] was my noble[A] Stewball\u2019 \u00a0 [ D G A ] my once noble steed.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ujudUb\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 900;\"><strong>I bet on the [D] grey mare, I bet on the [Em] bay.\u00a0 If I&#8217;d have bet on ol&#8217; [A] Stewball, I&#8217;d be a rich man [ D G A ] today.\u00a0 Oh the hoot owl, she [D] hollers, and the turtle dove [Em] moans.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a poor boy in [A] trouble, I&#8217;m a long way from [ D G A ] home.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 900;\"><strong>Old Stewball was a [D] racehorse, and I wish he were [Em] mine.\u00a0 He never drank [A] water, he always drank [ D ] wine.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Stewball was a [D] racehorse, and I wish he were [Em] mine.\u00a0\u00a0 He never drank [A] water, he always drank [ D G A ] wine.\u00a0 His bridle was [D] silver, his mane it was [Em] gold.\u00a0 And the worth of his [A] saddle has never been [ D &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/silver-was-a-racehorse\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Old Stewball was a Racehorse<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,120,95,133,126,265,116,117,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-chords","category-perflive","category-animals","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-power-outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30218,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions\/30218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}