Chasin' Wild Horses

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Track 7 of Western Stars, 2019.

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Credits

• Western Stars (2019)
  • Bruce Springsteen: vocals, guitars, keyboards, banjo, piano, percussion
  • Ron Aniello: upright bass, keyboards, guitars, drums
  • Barry Danielian: trumpet
  • Rachel Drehmann: french horn
  • Marc Muller: pedal steel guitar
  • Leelanee Sterrett: french horn
  • The Avatar Strings
    • Rob Mathes (string arrangement, conductor); Lisa Kim, Hyunju Lee, Elizabeth Lim-Dutton, Joanna Maurer, Suzanne Ornstein, Annaliesa Place, Emily Popham, Sharon Yamada, Jungsun Yoo (violins); Désirée Elsevier, Vivek Kamath, Robert Rinehart (violas); Alan Stepansky, Nathan Vickery (celli)

Performances

Performed live 1 times (not including snippet performances). 2019-04-00 Stone Hill Farm, Colts Neck, NJ

Performances broken down by tour (not including rehearsals and snippet performances) Performed at 1 known other show(s), plus 0 public tour rehearsal(s).

Released on Album

Released on Western Stars (2019).

A live version is released on Western Stars (Songs From The Film) (2019) (recorded April 2019).

On The Tracks

CHASIN' WILD HORSES - Demo		uncirculating
CHASIN' WILD HORSES	5:03	WESTERN

Note: A demo of "Chasin' Wild Horses" was first recorded in 2010 at Stone Hill Studio, Colts Neck, New Jersey. Completed by Ron Aniello and Springsteen over a period of several years, ending early 2019, as stated by Ron Aniello on his Instagram: "started in 2010… finished in 2014… finished again in 2018. Sometimes it takes a minute…". The song is used in the 2025 documentary film The Mustangs: America's Wild Horses, on which Patti Scialfa Springsteen and Jessica Springsteen are credited producers.

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Media

Lyrics

Chasin' Wild Horses

Guess it was somethin' I shouldn't have done
Guess I regret it now
Ever since I was a kid
Tryin' to keep my temper down is like
Chasin' wild horses, chasin' wild horses
Chasin' wild horses

Left my home, left my friends
I didn't say goodbye
I contract out to the BLM
Up on the Montana line
Chasin' wild horses, chasin' wild horses

We're out before sunup
In after sundown
There's two men in the chopper
Two under saddle on the ground
In the evenings we'd hop in the pickup
Head into town for a drink
I make sure I work till I'm so damn tired
Way too tired to think

You lose track of time
It's all just storms blowin' through
You come rollin' 'cross my mind
Your hair flashin' in the blue
Like wild horses, just like wild horses
Just like wild horses

A fingernail moon in a twilight sky
I'm ridin' in the high grass of the switchback
I shout your name into the canyon
The echo throws it back

The winter snow whiles out the plains
Till it can turn you blind
The only thing up here I've found
Is tryin' to get you off mind
Is like chasin' wild horses, chasin' wild horses
Chasin' wild horses, chasin' wild horses

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Links

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