Tonight We Ride

> > Written and recorded by Tom Russell > From the CD ?Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs >> > Pancho Villa crossed the border, in the year of ought-sixteen > > The people of Columbus, still hear him riding through their dreams > > He killed seventeen civilians, you could hear the women scream > > Black Jack Pershing on a dancing horse, was waiting in the wings > > > Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride > > We'll skin old Pancho Villa, and make chaps out of his hide > > Shoot his horse, Siete Leguas, and his twenty-seven brides > > Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride > > We rode for three long years, 'till Black Jack Pershing called it quitsn Jack wasn't looking, I stole his fine spade bit > It was tied upon his stallion, so I rode away on it > To the wild Chihauhan desert, so dry you couldn't spit > > Tonight we ride, you bastards dare > We'll kill the wild Apache, for the bounty on his hair > Then we'll ride into Durango, climb up the whorehouse stairs > Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride > > When I'm too damned old to sit a horse, I'll steal the Warden's car > Break my ass out of this prison, leave my teeth there in a jar > You don't need no teeth for kissin' galls, or smokin' cheap cigars > I'll sleep with one eye open, 'neath God's celestial stars > > Tonight we rock, Tonight we roll > We'll rob the Juarez liquor store, for the Rey Posada gold > And if we drink ourselves to death, ain't that the cowboy way to go? > Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride > > Tonight we fly, we're heading west > Toward the mountains and the ocean, where the eagle makes it's nest > And if our bones bleach on the desert, we'll consider we are blessed > Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride, TAG: Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride