Yes, on my drive home tonight, I found myself feeling a bit weepy while listening to “Wildfire,” by Michael Martin Murphey. I’ve linked to it here so that any readers who don’t know the song can mock me from a position of knowledge. The video’s cheesiness is incredibly appropriate.
sob The pony! A KILLING FROST!
I will back you up, jsgoddess, “Wildfire” is one of my favorite songs. Playing it is a thrill every time. Decades back, Murphey played it on one of the John Denver TV specials with JD backing him up. S’wonderful!
Wait, you mean the horse is supposed to have died in that song? 
No mocking here…chokes me up.
I like this version, because I like to watch the artist perform at the time he wrote the song. It’s a shame the video quality isn’t better.
Preach it.
I have longed used the ability of a cheesy sad song to reduce me to tears as a sign that I am very sad, or very very tired.
Sorry you had a Wildfire-bad day.
I hope it wasn’t*Bluer than Blue*-bad or Sometimes When We Touch-bad.
I have a special connection with “Wildfire” that goes back to the weekend of 10/11 May, 1975, and the one girlfriend of the last 40 years I still miss.*
*Hi, Gina! :o
It taught a generation to incorrectly believe that a “killing frost” kills ponies, not just grass. But it is a great song.
Or, “Bob” forbid, a Seasons In The Sun-bad day or a Cat’s In The Cradle-bad day; I hate those kind of days.
No, this Cat’s In The Cradle! And Part Two
I think I’m going to go call my dad now…
Doesn’t the horse AND the girl who ran into what, I assumed as a child, was a blizzard?
At least it wasn’t a horse with no name.
The elevator to Hell will play an endless loop of that tune & “Wildfire.”
I heard Michael Murphy a bunch back in Cosmic Cowboy days; he added the “Martin” after a more famous actor claimed the name. He once wrote some fine songs & the Lost Gonzo Band backed him before they moved on to Jerry Jeff Walker. Good times.
But I witnessed one evening of Murphy being the ultimate prima donna & lost the ability to stomach him. Then he wrote “Wildfire”…
A “killing frost” doesn’t even kill grass.
Dave Barry mocked this nicely in his book of Bad Songs. Apparently, in California there are lots of people who think life as we know it cannot survive below 32F.
“Wildfire” is not my least favorite song, but if I never heard it again I would be quite content.
I had to check that you weren’t a Facebook friend of mine in disguise. He recently introduced his young daughter to this tune as part of an informal series of “Songs that Make Daddy Cry.”
I do like the song, but then I love all kinds of 70s AM radio cheese. Anyone for a little Love Unlimited?
And the super-villain Killer Frost?
Hi, my name is Julia and I choke up when I hear One Tin Soldier. :o
Wildfire is awesome. I used to make my kids laugh by ad-libbing some lyrics over that pretty piano outro, something like, “Guess now you know why you need to fix that barn door…your horse was cute and now he’s gone…if you would look after your horse better then he’d be with you now and did I tell you I haven’t seen the dog…in about three days…dead horse.”
This just made my day, and I surround myself with people who make up lyrics to songs.
No, not quite THAT bad a day!
And getting home and introducing “Wildfire” to my previously blissfully ignorant spouse also cheered me up quite a bit. Misery DOES love company. 
What? No love/hate for The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald or Major Tom?
Damn, already got something in my eye…