Gringo Honeymoon - Robert Earl Keen

We were standing on a mountain top

Where the cactus flowers grow

I was wishing that the world would stop

When you said «We'd better go»

We took a row boat across the Rio Grande

Captain Pablo was our guide

For two dollars a weathered hand

He rowed us to the other side

We were dreaming 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 stream where children play

We went in the first place we could see

Serving cold beer in the shade

We were drinking 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 D.E.A

He left his home, wife, and family

When he made his get away

We’d followed him on down a street at dusk

To his run-down, one-room shack

He blew a smoke ring and he smiled at us

«I ain’t never goin' back»

We were flying like

The end was not in sight

And we that 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

We were singing 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 standing on a mountain top

Where the cactus flowers grow

I was wishing that the world would stop

When you said we’d better go