Spanish Johnny Lyrics - Emmylou Harris

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 

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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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