I dedicate this song to the extremely talented artist

🦙 Lama Balonik 🎈, @lamabalonik

His songs are well worth listening to.

"They call me the oddball of the prairie. No hooves like a horse, no horns like cattle, but I got a spirit that no fence can hold. Name's Dolores, and this here's my story."

They laughed when Billy rode me into town

Said a cowboy needs a horse, not a circus clown

But I carried him through desert heat and dust

When their mustangs failed, it was me he could trust

Inherited from a traveling show

Now I'm the strangest thing they'll ever know

Don't fence me in, don't box me in

I was born to roam where the wild winds spin

You can laugh at my long neck and my fuzzy hair

But I've got more heart than most horses dare

Don't fence me in, let me run free

The prairie's in my blood, it's calling to me

Ranchers tried to pen me with their cattle

Said I needed taming, it's an uphill battle

But when they came with ropes and wooden rails

I'd spit and kick 'til all their plans would fail

I'm not meant for barns or grassy fields

My spirit's one thing that never yields

Don't fence me in, don't box me in

I was born to roam where the wild winds spin

You can laugh at my long neck and my fuzzy hair

But I've got more heart than most horses dare

Don't fence me in, let me run free

The prairie's in my blood, it's calling to me

"When I walk across that desert sand, I hear my own heartbeat.

When I spit in some bandit's face, the whole town cheers.

They know I won't be broken."

Now the children sing about Dolores

Cowboys tell my legend, tell my stories

I became a symbol in this dusty place

That freedom can't be erased

Don't fence me in, don't box me in

I was born to roam where the wild winds spin

You can laugh at my long neck and my fuzzy hair

But I've got more heart than most horses dare

Don't fence me in, let me run free

The prairie's in my blood, eternally

"Sometimes the wildest spirits come in the strangest packages."

Don't fence me in

Let the wild ones be...