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Emmylou Harris - Spanish Johnny (feat. Waylon Jennings) Lyrics

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  • (Paul Siebel)
  • Those other years, the dusty years
  • We drove the big hers through
  • I tried to forget the miles we rode
  • And Spanish Johnny too
  • He'd sit beside a water ditch when all this herd was in
  • And he'd never harm a child but sing to his mandolin
  • The old talk, the old ways, and the dealin' of our game
  • But Spanish Johnny never spoke, but sing a song of Spain
  • And his talk with men was vicious talk
  • When he was drunk on gin
  • Ah, but those were golden things he said to his mandolin
  • We had to stand, we tried to judge, we had to stop him then
  • For the hand so gentle to a child had killed so many men
  • He died a hard death long ago before the road come in
  • And the night before he swung he sung to his mandolin
  • Well, we carried him out in the mornin' sun
  • A man that done no good
  • And we lowered him down in the cold clay
  • Stuck in a cross of wood
  • And a letter we wrote to his kinfolk
  • To tell them where he'd been
  • And we shipped it out to Mexico, along with his mandolin

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