And the cats are in the shed
 And the river tells a story
 At the window by my bed
 If you listen very closely
 Be as quiet as you can
 In the yard you'll hear him
 It is the pony man
 We're always there to greet him
 When he tumbles into town
 He leads a string of ponies
 Some are white and some are brown
 And they never seem to kick or bite
 They only want to play
 And they live on candy apples
 Instead of oats and hay

 And when we're all assembled
 He gives a soft command
 And we climb aboard our ponies
 As in a row the stand
 Then down the road we gallop
 And across the fields we fly
 And soon we all go sailing off
 Into the midnight sky

 And as we gaily rock along
 Beside a ripplin' sea
 There's Tom 'n Dick 'n Sally
 And Mary Joe and me
 And the pony man is leading
 Cause he's travelled here before
 And he gives a whoop and a holler
 At Mr. Moon's front door

 And as we stop to rest a while
 Where the soda river glides
 Up to the slip comes a pirate ship
 To take us for a ride
 And the pony man's the captain
 And the children are the crew
 And we go in search of treasure
 And laugh the whole night through

 And when the hold is filled with gold
 And the sails begin to strain
 And the deck's piled high with apple pie
 We head for port again
 And down the whirling starcase
 So swift our ponies fly
 And we're safely in our beds again
 When the sunbeams kiss the sky

 When it's midnight on the meadow
 And the cats are in the shed
 And the river tells a story
 At the window by my bed
 If you listen very closely
 Be as quiet as you can
 In the yard you'll hear him
 It is the pony man