Wild Horse is a fiddle tune that goes under a variety of titles. A good recording can be found on Track-9 of R Crumb’s Music Sampler that comes as part of The R Crumb Handbook. A not so good recording is available from the Henry Reed Collection of the Library of Congress.

Other tunes in this series can be found listed on the Toots of the Whistle page of the Guide.

This abc-rendition is transposed for the pennywhistle, tuned to the key of D. Copy and paste the abc-code, shown below, into your own text file and then process the file using the abc-tool of your choice. Free abc utilities are available that will convert the code to a MIDI file, to Adobe PostScript, and to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) suitable for printing the sheet music. As an alternative, it is possible to read the abc-code direct and play it on your favourite instrument.