The Horse Tamer's Daughter by Leslie Fish

This song by Leslie Fish was given a Pegasus award in 2002 and as discussed in this post (with comment from Leslie) explains that it also received a Special Prometheus Award in 2014 paired with Leslie's novella 'Tower of Horses':
https://www.lfs.org/blog/a-song-of-community-and-resistance-to-tyranny-and-the-novella-it-inspired-an-appreciation-of-leslie-fishs-the-horsetamers-daughter-and-tower-of-horses/

An interview with Leslie (@lesliefish_filk ) on the song and Darkover:
https://deborahjross.blogspot.com/2018/04/crossroads-of-darkover-author-interview_23.html

Most people will know the Julia Ecklar recording of this song. But I was inspired by Debora Van Heyningen's fabulous singing in the Filk Ontario circle on the weekend to have a go at this monster myself.

I loved Marion Zimmer Bradley's Avalon series, but have not read any of the Darkover series.

Apart from a few word shuffles in the recording of 13+ minutes, my only big frustration is a single line that I missed in one of the verses. Being 13 minutes, I wasn't up for a second take.

All horse photos from Pixabay.

If anyone has a recording of Leslie singing this, please let me know so I can link it.

A recording of Leslie here (thanks to Eli Goldberg for pointing me in the right direction):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCBZA0osUfM&t=2901s&ab_channel=BillMills

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