Song - Golden Eyes Mercedes Lackey/Leslie Fish, arr. by Joey Shoji
Album Title: The Horse-Tamer's Daughter
Producer: Off Centaur Publications
Type: Studio
Date: 1984
The Horse-Tamer's Daughter is a filk album named after the title song; a songbook of the same title was also released. The album was sung by Julia Ecklar, and most of the songs were written by Leslie Fish.
The story behind Threes was eventually incorporated into the book Oathbreakers in Mercedes Lackey's world of Velgarth.
Lyrics
A shadow in the bright bazaar
A glimpse of eyes where none should shine
A glimpse of eyes translucent gold
And slited against the sun
This the clue, and this the sign
That sets him on his quarry's line
But she has seen him in a dream
And now she's on the run
Faster than a thought she flees
And seeks the jungle's sheltering trees
But he is steady on the track
And half a breath behind
She tastes his scent upon the breeze
And looking past her shoulder sees
He treads upon her shadow
She fears the hunters mind
So now she summons all her wit
And every trick she knows to hide
To make him loose the twisting track
To throw him off her trail
In woman form in leopard hide
Fording leaping side to side
She doubles back along her track
And sees her efforts fail
He stands before her, dark and grim
Her terror now she can't suppress
He blocks the only pathway out
And will not let her by
Her gold flanks heaving in distress
Half woman and half leopardess
To either the side, no where to hide
It's time to fight or die
But what is this, to her amaze
The man has thrown his gun away
And quietly draws near her now
A smile upon his face
Before she thinks to run or stay
His body blurs like soften clay
Before her eyes to her surprise
A leopard in his place
The hunter they have sought in vain
And now the talk of the bazaar-
Is of the canny leopard pair
A sight none will forget
Who once has seen them near or far
In sunlight or where shadows are
As side-by-side they hunt and hide
No one has caught them yet