Epona’s Song

Malon teaches Epona’s Song on Lon Lon Ranch while Link is a child. She asks him to sing it with her. In the 1998 script she says her mother composed it. Learn it, and the horse will come when you play it as an adult. The ranch context is on the ranch guide.

How to learn it

1. As child Link, use the cucco hatched from Malon’s Weird Egg to wake Talon at Hyrule Castle.
2. Meet Princess Zelda, then return to Lon Lon Ranch during the day.
3. Speak to Malon beside Epona until she talks about her song, then take out the Fairy Ocarina.
4. Repeat the six notes she demonstrates; use the controller sequence for your edition in the table below.

Buttons by version

Zeldapedia writes the pitches as D–B–A–D–B–A. I am not calling that an official score. Nobody I read published a BPM, so the tempo box stays empty. The Switch 2 remake also lets you use a microphone; Wikipedia notes voiced and playable ocarina changes, and Zelda Wiki notes the mic option on the song page.

What the song does

• Summons Epona once you have won her back from Ingo.
• Played for a cow, with an empty bottle, it fills the bottle with Lon Lon Milk.
• In Majora’s Mask, Romani teaches the same melody again and calls Link “Grasshopper.”
• In Twilight Princess, Ilia’s theme rearranges it, and the night Hyrule Field music quotes Malon’s voice.
• Breath of the Wild stable music and Tears of the Kingdom’s Stable Trotters both quote it. Malon herself is not in those games.

How the tune is built

Zelda Wiki describes the piece as 3/4 time, 32 bars, an A section in D major and a B section in F major, with swing eighth notes. It calls those swing eighths unique among the Ocarina of Time songs. I am passing that description through, not re-analyzing a recording. If you want the marriage theory that hangs off this melody, it lives on the evidence page, not in the sheet music.

Play

OCWALK’s tab video from 6 September 2021 is the clearest public fingering I found. IGN’s “How to Get Epona,” posted 6 November 2026, is linked from the remake page because it is about winning the horse, not about the notes.