Spanish Guns & Aztec Gold

from Bare Bones by The Gothic Cowboy (aka Melvin Litton)

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11) Spanish Guns/Aztec Gold - m.litton

He rode out of Sonora, boys, like an outlaw of old
Singing vaquero songs for the ladies
Tales of Zapata and Poncho…Villa rides!

He quit the red banks of the Rio Yaqui
The adobe hut where he was born
To rustle cattle from the rich haciendas
From descendants of Castilian lords…Villa rides!

High in the sierras, above the chaparral
He butchered the cattle in an Indian corral
He rode to Durango, sold the hides to an Anglo
For Spanish guns and Aztec gold
And he played his guitar with a force that turned all eyes

She was the midnight’s bronze-skinned maiden
Colored by the moon
An evening flower for the prince of music
His fair lady of Guadalupe...Marina!

Hernando felt her beauty cut through him
As the wine warmed the veins of his arms
Late that night on the upstairs veranda
He cradled her like his Spanish guitar…Marina!

Have you never felt the breath of the desert night air
Nor tasted the fruit which sharp cactus bear
Sweet as new music, a women ripe beauty
Like Spanish guns and Aztec gold
She’ll flood the sands of your soul with fire

He taught Marina the art and the language
Of bandits and thieves and life on the run
He made their rings from a bullets brass casing
At the altar they knelt like a priest and a nun…Hernando!

Soon they were hunted through all of Chihuahua
So they planned their way up to San Joaquin
Hernando sold a man his guitar and his pistols
To smuggle them both to the land of their dreams…California!

At the border the bracero king led Marina away
Told her it was time she paid for her ride
Hernando grabbed this coyote by the shoulder
With a long stiletto he took his life…in California!

In the high Yankee Temple the melting pot stews
And the Mexican cornucopia has abundant fruit
Her sons and daughter spill across the deserts and the hills
And Spanish guns and Aztec gold lay buried
In arroyos for the day when la Raza will rise

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from Bare Bones, released October 2, 2020

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The Gothic Cowboy/The Border Band Lawrence, Kansas

I'm a creekbank ghetto boy. Began my singin' near half a century ago in Canada, then hit northeast, down thru Nashville, Austin, out to Colorado and back to Kansas where I started out and will likely remain. My influences are Leadbelly, Jimmie Rodgers, CCR and The Band, while the juices of a hundred others flavor my music, not to mention the devil himself if that's what it takes to make a song... ... more

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