Tonight We Ride

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> Written and recorded by Tom Russell 
> From the CD ?Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs 
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> Pancho 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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> Black Jack 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 old Pancho Villa, and 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 Black Jack Pershing called it quitsn Jack wasn't looking, I stole his fine spade bit 
> It was tied upon his stallion, so I rode away on it 
> To the wild Chihauhan desert, so dry you couldn't spit 
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> Tonight we ride, you bastards dare 
> We'll kill the wild Apache, for the bounty on his hair 
> Then we'll ride into Durango, climb up the whorehouse stairs 
> Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride 
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> When I'm too damned old to sit a horse, I'll steal the Warden's car 
> Break my ass out of this prison, leave my teeth there in a jar 
> You don't need no teeth for kissin' galls, or smokin' cheap cigars 
> I'll sleep with one eye open, 'neath God's celestial stars 
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> Tonight we rock, Tonight we roll 
> We'll rob the Juarez liquor store, for the Rey Posada gold 
> And if we drink ourselves to death, ain't that the cowboy way to go? 
> Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride 
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> Tonight we fly, we're heading west 
> Toward the mountains and the ocean, where the eagle makes it's nest 
> And if our bones bleach on the desert, we'll consider we are blessed 
> Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride,            TAG:  Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride