Panco Villa crossed the border in the year of ought sixteen
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The people of Columbus still hear him riding through their dreams
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He killed seventeen civilians you could hear the women scream
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Blackjack Pershing on a dancing horse was waiting in the wings
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Tonight we ride, tonight we ride
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We'll skin ole Pancho Villa, make chaps out of his hide
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Shoot his horse, Siete Leguas, and his twenty-seven brides
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Tonight we ride, tonight we ride
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We rode for three long years till Blackjack Pershing called it quits
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When Jackie wasn't lookin' I stole his fine spade bit
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It was tied upon his stallion, so I rode away on it
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To the wild Chihuahuan desert, so dry you couldn't spit
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Tonight we ride, you bastards dare
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We'll kill the wild Apache for the bounty on his hair
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Then we'll ride into Durango, climb up the whorehouse stairs
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Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride
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[solo]
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When I'm too damn old to sit a horse, I'll steal the warden's car
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Break my ass out of this prison, leave my teeth there in a jar
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You don't need no teeth for kissin' gals or smokin' cheap cigars
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I'll sleep with one eye open, 'neath God's celestial stars
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Tonight we rock, Tonight we roll
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We'll rob the Juarez liquor store for the Reposado Gold
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And if we drink ourselves to death, ain't that the cowboy way to go?
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Tonight we ride, tonight we ride
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Tonight we fly, we're headin' west
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Toward the mountains and the ocean where the eagle makes his nest
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If our bones bleach on the desert, we'll consider we are blessed
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Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride
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[solo]
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...Tonight we ride, tonight we ride.
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Tonight We Ride
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| Tom Russell |
