Tonight We Ride

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> Written and recorded by Tom Russell
> From the CD ?Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs
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> [F]Pancho Villa crossed the [C]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
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,