Tonight We Ride

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, 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 'til Black Jack Pershing called it quits
When Jackie wasn't looking, I stole his fine spade bit
It was tied upon his stallion so I rode away on it
To the wild Chihuahuan 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 damn 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 kissing gals or smoking 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 Repasada 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 his nest
If our bones bleach on the desert, we'll consider we are blessed
Tonight we ride, tonight we ride

Tonight we ride, tonight we ride