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Subject: :Tonight We Ride" by Tom Russell
Title: ?Tonight We Ride? written and performed by Tom Russell
Album: Cowboys Indians Horses Dogs (2004) Hightone
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Poncho Villa crossed the border, in the year of ought 16
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The people of Columbus still hear him riding through their dreams
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He killed 17 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 ol? Poncho Villa, make chaps out of his hide
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Shoot his horse Siete Leguas and his 27 brides
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Tonight we ride, tonight we ride
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We rode for three long years ?til Black Jack Pershing called it quits
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When Jackie wasn?t lookin, I stole his fine spaid 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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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, beneath God?s celestial stars
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Tonight we rock, tonight we roll
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We?ll rob the Juarez liqour 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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Towards 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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Tonight we ride, tonight we ride
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