Rosettes - Maddy Prior

Rosettes are pinned on the wardrobe

Certificates hang by the door

It’s horses and horses and horses again

That’s all she seems to live for

Then comes the day

She’ll put them away

Hide herself secretly

In a diary with a lock and a key

She’s galloping, galloping over the plain

The young girls are galloping, galloping again

Holding their horses and reigning them back

Handling stallions with bridle and tack

It’ll help them to handle the men in their lives

Horses will teach them to ride

Horses will teach them to ride

Four legs are sold for four wheels

No more Sunday afternoon chills

Instead of outside in the cold and the damp

She’s indoors finding new thrills

And she knows what it meant

By a three day event

And life is one long hunter trial

And she’ll challenge it all with a smile

She’s galloping, galloping over the plain

The young girls are galloping, galloping again

Horses for courses they’re spurring them on

Gentling geldings to ride to the hounds

It’ll help them to handle the men in their lives

Horses will teach them to ride

Horses will teach them to ride

Galloping, galloping, galloping, …