Gringo's Guitar Songtext
von Sons of the Pioneers

Listen... listen! There, it′s playing again...
Gringo's guitar playing songs of desire
Are sung by the haunted wind!
Down in Nuevo Laredo,
On the border of ol′ Mexico
There's a legend they tell of a cowboy,
A tall Texas drover named "Joe"
But the braseros just call him "Gringo",
The gringo who played the guitar
To the Mexican girl that he loved so,
'Neath the misty Mexico star
Listen... listen! There, it′s playing again...
Gringo′s guitar playing songs of desire Are sung by the haunted wind!
He sang of the day when they'd marry,
When the round-up was over an′ through
And great were the plans for their wedding,
And for dreams they dreamed would come true
But he never came back from the round-up,
A stampeding herd ran him down
But, sometimes,
Strange and beautiful music of a guitar is heard through the town
Listen... listen! There, it's playing again...
Gringo′s guitar playing songs of desire
Are sung by the haunted wind!