The Tea Horse Road

from When The World Was Young by Terry Draper

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THE TEA HORSE ROAD
(April 18, 2012)

They rode The Tea Horse Road when Kublai Kahn was still a child
They rode The Tea Horse Road long before The West was wild
They rode The Tea Horse Road
They rode The Tea Horse Road.

They rode The Tea Horse Road before Brittania ruled the waves
They rode The Tea Horse Road long before the great Crusades
They rode The Tea Horse Road
They rode The Tea Horse Road.

I have wandered The Tea Horse Road
Horses from Tibet for Sichuan gold
I have pondered the porters’ heavy load
Chinese tea across The Great Plateau
Oh, The Tea Horse Road… Take me back to a simpler time
Oh, The Tea Horse Road… Long before the train and the aeroplane
Take me to The Tea Horse Road.

They rode The Tea Horse Road before Columbus sailed the seas
They rode The Tea Horse Road into the Twentieth Century
They rode The Tea Horse Road
They rode The Tea Horse Road.

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from When The World Was Young, track released March 21, 2014

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