Robert Earl Keen - Gringo Honeymoon lyrics

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We were standin' on a mountain top

Where the cactus flowers grow

I was wishin' that the world would stop

When you said we'd better go

We took a rowboat 'cross the Rio Grande

Captain Pablo was our giude

For two dollars in a weathered hand

He rowed us to the other side

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And we were dreamin' like the end was not in sight

And we dreamed all afternoon

We asked the world to wait so we could celebrate

A gringo honeymoon

We stepped out onto the golden sand

The sun was high and burning down

Rented donkeys from an old blind man

Saddled up and rode to town

Tied our donkeys to an ironwood tree

By the street where the children play

We walked in the first place we could see

Servin' cold beer in the shade

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We were drinkin' like the end was not in sight

And we drank all afternoon

We asked the world to wait so we could celebrate

A gringo honeymoon

Met a cowboy who said that he

Was running from the DEA

He left a home, a wife, a family

When he made his getaway

We followed him on down a street of dust

To his one room run-down shack

He blew a smoke ring and he smiled at us

I ain't never goin' back

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We were flyin' like the end was not in sight

And we soared all afternoon

We asked the world to wait so we could celebrate

A gringo honeymoon

He said there's one last place that you should go

He took us to the town's best bar

He knew a crusty caballero

Who played an old gut string guitar

And he sang like Marty Robbins could

Played like no one I've known

For a while we knew that life was good

It was ours to take back home

CHORUS:

We were singin' like the end was not in sight

And we sang all afternoon

We asked the world to wait so we could celebrate

A gringo honeymoon

We were standin' on a mountain top

Where the cactus flowers grow

I was wishin' that the world would stop

When you said we'd better go