Paul Simon - One-Trick Pony Lyrics

Lyrics One-Trick Pony - Paul Simon



He's a one trick pony
One trick is all that horse can do
He does one trick only
It's the principal source of his revenue
And when he steps into the spotlight
You can feel the heat of his heart
Come rising through
See how he dances
See how he loops from side to side
See how he prances
The way his hooves just seem to glide
He's just a one trick pony (that's all he is)
But he turns that trick with pride
He makes it look so easy
He looks so clean
He moves like God's
Immaculate machine
He makes me think about
All of these extra movements I make
And all of this herky-jerky motion
And the bag of tricks it takes
To get me through my working day
One-trick pony
He's a one trick pony
He either fails or he succeeds
He gives his testimony
Then he relaxes in the weeds
He's got one trick to last a lifetime
But that's all a pony needs
(That's all he needs)
He looks so easy
He looks so clean
He moves like God's
Immaculate machine
He makes me think about
All of these extra movements I make
And all of this herky-jerky motion
And the bag of tricks it takes
To get me through my working day
One-trick pony, one trick pony
One-trick pony, one trick pony
One-trick pony (take me for a ride)
One trick pony



Writer(s): Paul Simon


Paul Simon - The Complete Albums Collection
Album The Complete Albums Collection
date of release
11-10-2013

1 The Story of "Graceland" as Told By Paul Simon
2 A Most Peculiar Man
3 Oh, Marion
4 I Know What I Know
5 Duncan (Demo, San Francisco 2/71)
6 St. Judy's Comet
7 Was a Sunny Day
8 Congratulations
9 Run That Body Down
10 All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints (with Los Lobos)
11 Tenderness
12 Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard (Demo, San Francisco 2/71)
13 Hobo's Blues
14 Satin Summer Nights
15 Time Is an Ocean
16 That Was Your Mother
17 Father and Daughter
18 Adiós Hermanos
19 Sunday Afternoon
20 American Tune (Unfinished Demo)
21 A Church Is Burning
22 All Because of You (Outtake)
23 April Come She Will
24 Armistice Day
25 Bernadette
26 Born At the Right Time
27 Can't Run But
28 Everything Put Together Falls Apart
29 God Bless the Absentee
30 He Was My Brother
31 Homeless (demo)
32 I Don't Believe
33 How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns
34 Jonah
35 Kathy's Song
36 Killer Wants to Go to College
37 Killer Wants to Go to College II
38 Leaves That Are Green
39 Long, Long Day
40 Night Game
41 Nobody
42 Once Upon a Time There Was an Ocean
43 One-Trick Pony
44 Patterns
45 Proof
46 Quiet
47 Señorita with a Necklace of Tears
48 She Moves On
49 That's Me
50 That's Where I Belong (Live)
51 That's Why God Made the Movies
52 The Boy In the Bubble
53 The Rhythm of the Saints
54 Trailways Bus
55 Virgil
56 You're Kind
57 Dazzling Blue
58 Getting Ready for Christmas Day
59 Love Is Eternal Sacred Light
60 Rewrite
61 Crazy Love, Vol. II
62 The Afterlife
63 Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall
64 Stranded in a Limosine
65 I'd Do It for Your Love
66 Thelma (Bonus Track)
67 Hearts And Bones - Live
68 The Sound of Silence - Live
69 Amulet
70 Papa Hobo
71 Shoplifting Clothes - Bonus Track
72 Born In Puerto Rico (Demo) [with Jose Feliciano] (Bonus Track)
73 The Coast (Work-In-Progress) (Bonus Track)
74 Can I Forgive Him
75 Homeless (with Ladysmith Black Mambazo)
76 I Am a Rock
77 The Sound Of Silence
78 Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes (Alternate Version)
79 The Side of a Hill
80 All Around The World Or The Myth Of Fingerprints - Early Version
81 A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)
82 You Can Call Me Al - Demo
83 Crazy Love - Demo
84 I Am a Rock - Alternate Version
85 A Church Is Burning (Alternate Version)
86 Mother and Child Reunion
87 The Coast
88 Further To Fly
89 The Cool, Cool River
90 Spirit Voices
91 The Obvious Child - Live
92 Paranoia Blues (Unreleased Version)
93 The Boy in the Bubble - Live
94 She Moves On (Live)
95 Born At The Right Time - Live
96 Train in the Distance - Live
97 Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard - Live
98 I Know What I Know (Live)
99 The Cool, Cool River - Live
100 Bridge over Troubled Water - Live
101 Proof (Live)
102 The Coast (Live)
103 Graceland - Live
104 You Can Call Me Al - Live
105 Still Crazy After All These Years - Live
106 Loves Me Like a Rock (Live)
107 Loves Me Like a Rock (Acoustic Demo)
108 Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Live
109 Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
110 Homeward Bound (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
111 Late in the Evening - Live
112 American Tune (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
113 El Condor Pasa (If I Could) [with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba] (Live)
114 America (Live)
115 The Boxer (Live)
116 Duncan (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
117 Cecilia (Live)
118 The Boxer (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
119 Mother and Child Reunion (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
120 The Sound of Silence (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
121 Jesus Is the Answer (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
122 Bridge Over Troubled Water (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
123 Loves Me Like a Rock (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
124 The Vampires
125 America (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
126 Quality
127 Something So Right (Live)
128 My Little Town (with Art Garfunkel)
129 Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy
130 Have a Good Time
131 That's Where I Belong
132 Silent Eyes
133 Darling Lorraine
134 Slip Slidin' Away (Demo)
135 Old
136 You're the One
137 The Teacher
138 Look at That
139 Pigs, Sheep and Wolves
140 Ace In the Hole
141 Hurricane Eye
142 Old (Live)
143 Hurricane Eye (Live)
144 How Can You Live in the Northeast?
145 Everything About It Is a Love Song
146 Outrageous
147 Allergies
148 Sure Don't Feel Like Love
149 Hearts and Bones
150 Wartime Prayers
151 When Numbers Get Serious
152 Beautiful
153 Think Too Much (b)
154 Song About the Moon
155 Another Galaxy
156 Think Too Much (A)
157 Rene and George Magritte With Their Dog After the War
158 Cars Are Cars
159 The Late Great Johnny Ace
160 Train In the Distance (Acoustic Demo) [Bonus Track]
161 Rene and George Magritte With Their Dog After the War (Acoustic Demo) [Bonus Track]
162 Love and Hard Times
163 The Late Great Johnny Ace (Acoustic Demo) [Bonus Track]
164 Love & Blessings
165 Gumboots (with Boyoyo Boys)
166 So Beautiful or so What




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