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lyrics: J. Morse © 1984 final quotation from Carl Sandburg's "Smoke and Steel" Waiting for the stage So they can take me to my cage Marshal's watching me with a loaded gun Deputy playing solitaire Stuck in El Paso, going nowhere One last night, time to think of how to run Lying in my cell This prison's hotter than hell I'm watching for a gap in security If I can finally break free There's no way they're gonna catch me Mexico, my land of opportunity Far across the border Ciudad Juarez If I can swim across the water That's what the madman always says Ciudad Juarez. . . Remembering days of riding across the plains I could have had another life, if I'd just had some breaks But I fell into a bad line, and now I'm caged just like a beast But does it matter anyway? They say these days are ending. . . The gunslingers are gone And the banditos have all gone The cowboys are all gone The indians are gone "All the buffalo are gone And those who saw the buffalo are gone." |