t was early morning, after the party, and Applejack was just coming back from her chores. She was humming a tune, as she usually did. This time it seemed to echo faintly.
She stopped humming and blinked, confused as the tune continued. The music wasnāt coming from her, it was coming from the barn. She remembered the piano still there from the previous night and smiled as she quietly walked to the barn door.
Sure enough, Dash was sitting there tapping out the very tune AJ hummed each morning. It was a sweet tune with a slight hint of melancholy.
āNow whereād yaā learn that?ā Applejack spoke up as Dash finished the verse.
āHuh? Nowhere!ā Dash turned around, blushing.
āThatās an old earth pony song. You been listeninā to me hum it?ā
āNo way! Iāve known it forever, my dad used to sing it to me.ā Dash blushed harder as Applejack smiled fondly. Trying to recover her coolness, she continued, āAnd it is totally not an earth pony song. That doesnāt even make sense.ā
āYou must not know all the words then,ā Applejack said with a smirk.
āUm, yeah, I do. The words are what make it not an earth pony song.ā
Applejack just kept smiling. āHold on a minute. Iāll be back.ā
She left and returned just a few minutes later with a fiddle case. She pulled out a beat up old fiddle, and quickly tuned it. āGo on and start.ā
Dash played the tune again by herself. It was only after she finished that Applejack sang:
āIn this world there's a whole lotta golden
In this world there's a whole lotta plain
In this world there's a whole lotta trouble
But a whole lotta ground to gain
Why take when you could be givinā, why watch as the world goes by?
It's a hard enough life to be livinā, why walk when you can fly?ā
Then she took the bow in her mouth and played. Dash joined in on the piano, but luckily she could play the old song by heart, because she was just staring at Applejack as the earth pony fiddled with a smile on her face until the next verse.
Dash kept playing as Applejack dropped the bow and sang:
āIn this world there's a whole lotta sorrow
In this world there's a whole lotta shame
In this world there's a whole lotta sorrow
And a whole lotta ground to gain
When you spend your whole life wishinā, wantinā and wonderinā why,
It's a long enough life to be livinā, why walk when you can fly?ā
As Applejack took up her bow again and played, Dash kept playing but shook her head and said, āSee? This totally isnāt an earth pony song.
Applejack paid her no mind, and when Dash thought the song should have been finished, Applejack dropped the bow and smiled at Dash, going into another verse that the pegasus didnāt recognize:
āIn this world there's a whole lot of cold
In this world there's a whole lot of blame
In this world you've a soul for a compass
And a heart for a pair of wings
There's a star on the far horizon, risinā bright in an azure sky
For the rest of the time that you're given, why walk when you can fly?ā
Dash smiled, and Applejack picked up the bow again, smiling at her pegasus. The two played together for another few bars, and finished with a flourish.
When Applejack laid her bow down for the last time she walked over to where Dash was sitting at the piano. āThatās an old earth pony song my pa taught me.ā She closed her eyes and nuzzled Dashās cheek, and whispered, āI reckon you and him woulda got along.ā
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Squee! Pianodash returns :D
Not a bad story, though it kinda bugs me that you broke the rhyming scheme in the third verse.
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Ha, I can blame someone else for that. In the thread I linked to the YouTube video, but I guess DbzOrDie didn't transfer the link. The song is by Mary Chapin Carpenter, Why Walk When You Can Fly.
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I didn't know I had to
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Well, I don't want people to think I wrote it. Maybe add it to the author notes?
Very nicely done. I always love seeing and hearing new music!
That song, It's sooooooo good.