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'''The Horse-Tamer's Daughter''' is a [[filksong]] by [[Leslie Fish]] (copyright 1983). It was the title song of the filksong collection ''The Horse-Tamer's Daughter'', which was edited by Teri Lee and published by Off Centaur Publications in 1984.<ref>''[http://www.massfilc.org/filkindex/horsetamer.xml The Horse-Tamer's Daughter]'' in The M.A.S.S. F.I.L.C. Filk Book Index. Last modified November 25, 2006. Retrieved May 9, 2008.</ref>

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"The Horse-Tamer's Daughter" won a Ohio Valley Filk Fest Pegasus Award in 2002, in the category Best Song That Tells A Story; in 1999, it had been nominated for Best Hero Song.<ref>[http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/horsetamers-daughter.html Pegasus Awards - Horsetamer's Daughter]. Retrieved May 9, 2008.</ref>

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"The Horse-Tamer's Daughter" won a Ohio Valley Filk Fest Pegasus Award in 2002, in the category Best Song That Tells A Story; in 1999, it had been nominated for Best Hero Song.<ref>[http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/horsetamers-daughter.html Pegasus Awards - Horsetamer's Daughter]. Retrieved May 9, 2008.</ref> It is also the title track of the 2013 Julia Ecklar album "Horsetamer".

David Weingart's 1994 filksong [http://www.weingart.net/myfilks.html#filkupyourvoices Filk Up Your Voices] includes the lines

:But we're tired of lugging lyrics and we're tired of some songs

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:And so we scream "Horsetamer's Daughter" is a hundred times too long

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:And so we scream "Horsetamer's Daughter" is a hundred times too long

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Heather Stern wrote that the tune of "The Horse-Tamer's Daughter" "is good but the original lyrics were ... unpopular. 22 verses and not quite canon attitude towards Darkover."<ref>http://newton.ex.ac.uk/LDP/LDP/LG/issue67/misc/tag/filksong-programmers-daughter.txt Retrieved May 9, 2008.</ref> She created [http://newton.ex.ac.uk/LDP/LDP/LG/issue67/misc/tag/filksong-programmers-daughter.txt an autobiographical filksong The Programmer's Daughter] to the tune.

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Heather Stern wrote that the tune of "The Horse-Tamer's Daughter" "is good but the original lyrics were ... unpopular. 22 verses and not quite canon attitude towards Darkover."<ref>http://newton.ex.ac.uk/LDP/LDP/LG/issue67/misc/tag/filksong-programmers-daughter.txt Retrieved May 9, 2008.</ref> She created [http://newton.ex.ac.uk/LDP/LDP/LG/issue67/misc/tag/filksong-programmers-daughter.txt an autobiographical filksong The Programmer's Daughter] to the tune.

Damien Sullivan wrote a [http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dasulliv/myhorse.html parody extension] of "The Horse-Tamer's Daughter", linked to from [http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/me/filk.html Damien Sullivan's filk page].

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== References ==

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== External links ==

* [http://www.prometheus-music.com/audio/horse.mp3 The Horse-Tamer's Daughter] (mp3 file) sung by Julia Ecklar. From [http://www.prometheus-music.com/eli/virtual.html The Virtual Filksing].

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* [http://www.prometheus-music.com/horsetamer.html Horsetamer] (album).

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 '''The Horse-Tamer's Daughter''' is a [[filksong]] by [[Leslie Fish]] (copyright 1983). It was the title song of the filksong collection ''The Horse-Tamer's Daughter'', which was edited by Teri Lee and published by Off Centaur Publications in 1984.<ref>''[http://www.massfilc.org/filkindex/horsetamer.xml The Horse-Tamer's Daughter]'' in The M.A.S.S. F.I.L.C. Filk Book Index. Last modified November 25, 2006. Retrieved May 9, 2008.</ref>
-"The Horse-Tamer's Daughter" won a Ohio Valley Filk Fest Pegasus Award in 2002, in the category Best Song That Tells A Story; in 1999, it had been nominated for Best Hero Song.<ref>[http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/horsetamers-daughter.html Pegasus Awards - Horsetamer's Daughter]. Retrieved May 9, 2008.</ref>
+"The Horse-Tamer's Daughter" won a Ohio Valley Filk Fest Pegasus Award in 2002, in the category Best Song That Tells A Story; in 1999, it had been nominated for Best Hero Song.<ref>[http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/horsetamers-daughter.html Pegasus Awards - Horsetamer's Daughter]. Retrieved May 9, 2008.</ref> It is also the title track of the 2013 Julia Ecklar album "Horsetamer".
 David Weingart's 1994 filksong [http://www.weingart.net/myfilks.html#filkupyourvoices Filk Up Your Voices] includes the lines
 :But we're tired of lugging lyrics and we're tired of some songs
 :And so we scream "Horsetamer's Daughter" is a hundred times too long
-Heather Stern wrote that the tune of "The Horse-Tamer's Daughter" "is good but the original lyrics were ...	unpopular.  22 verses and not quite canon attitude towards Darkover."<ref>http://newton.ex.ac.uk/LDP/LDP/LG/issue67/misc/tag/filksong-programmers-daughter.txt Retrieved May 9, 2008.</ref> She created [http://newton.ex.ac.uk/LDP/LDP/LG/issue67/misc/tag/filksong-programmers-daughter.txt  an autobiographical filksong The Programmer's Daughter] to the tune.
+Heather Stern wrote that the tune of "The Horse-Tamer's Daughter" "is good but the original lyrics were ... unpopular. 22 verses and not quite canon attitude towards Darkover."<ref>http://newton.ex.ac.uk/LDP/LDP/LG/issue67/misc/tag/filksong-programmers-daughter.txt Retrieved May 9, 2008.</ref> She created [http://newton.ex.ac.uk/LDP/LDP/LG/issue67/misc/tag/filksong-programmers-daughter.txt an autobiographical filksong The Programmer's Daughter] to the tune.
 Damien Sullivan wrote a [http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dasulliv/myhorse.html parody extension] of "The Horse-Tamer's Daughter", linked to from [http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/me/filk.html Damien Sullivan's filk page].
 == References ==
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 == External links ==
 * [http://www.prometheus-music.com/audio/horse.mp3 The Horse-Tamer's Daughter] (mp3 file) sung by Julia Ecklar. From [http://www.prometheus-music.com/eli/virtual.html The Virtual Filksing].
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