Joan Baez:

We had lurking ... lurking in  the background on and off during 
the evening a friend whom most of you know, and I'd like to introduce 
him and have sing a beautiful song called 'Chestnut Mare'. That's 
Roger McGuinn.

Chestnut Mare
(Roger McGuinn, Jacques Levy)
Plymouth 1975-10-31

Always alone never with a herd
Prettiest mare I've ever seen
You'll have to take my word

I'm gonna catch that horse if I can
And when I do I'll give her my brand

Well, I was up on a stony ridge after this chestnut mare
I'd been chasin' her for weeks now
Oh, I'd catch a little glimpse of her every once in a while
Takin' her meal, or bathin'
She was a real fine lady
This one day I saw her standing over there in a clearing
So I snuck up to her nice and easy
I got my rope out and I flung it in the air!

I'm gonna catch that horse if I can
And when I do I'll give her my brand
And we'll be friends for life
She'll be just like a wife
I'm gonna catch that horse if I can

And I got her, and I'm pullin' on her,
She's pullin' back like a mule tryin' to climb up a ladder.
And I take this chance and I jump up on her -
Damned if I don't land right on top of her the first time.
And she takes off, runnin' up on to that ridge higher than I've ever been before
She's runnin' along just fine, 
Till she sees this sidewinder all coiled up and ready to strike
She doesn't know what to do for a second
But then she spooks and jumps off the edge me holding on!

Above the clouds
Higher than eagles were gliding
Suspended in the sky

Over the moon
Straight for the sun we were riding
My eyes were filled with light

Behind us black walls
Below us a bottomless canyon
Floating with no sound

Gulls far below
Seemed to be suddenly rising
Exploding all around

I'm gonna catch that horse if I can
And when I do I'll give her my brand
And we'll be friends for life
She'll be just like a wife
I'm gonna catch that horse if I can.

And we were falling down this crevice,
About a mile down there I'd say.
I look down and I see this red thing below us
That turns out to be our reflection in a little pool of water
About six feet wide and one foot deep
We're comin' down at it 'round 32 feet per second, per a second,
Finally we hit it and we splashed that pool dry
And that's when I lost my hold and she got away
But she knows that I'm gonna get her again some day

I'm gonna catch that horse if I can
And when I do I'll give her my brand
And we'll be friends for life
She'll be just like a wife
I'm gonna catch that horse
I'm gonna catch that horse
I'm gonna catch that horse if I can
I'm gonna catch that horse if I can