Behind The Bamboo Shade Lyrics - Dig All Night - Joe Ely

In a border town when the lights go down 

And the Ranchero Radio plays 

You won't find me around in the lights of the town 

I'll be out where the day meets the shade 

I only came for a holiday to sit in the Mexican wind 

I only came for the whiskey, but suddenly she walked in 

She wore a dress made of lace 

And the light on her face 

I felt the room start to shake 

It shook a black Spanish love seat behind the bamboo shade 

I only came for the sun, but I wound up with the moon and the stars 

When her eyes met mine, the room filled with Spanish guitars 

The kerosene in my blood 

Came on like a flood 

As I stood to take her away 

To a black Spanish love seat behind the bamboo shade 

On a black Spanish love seat behind the bamboo shade 

With the skeletons dancing on the eve of the Day of the Dead 

I reached out in the dark 

Put my hand on her heart 

While the bows of the palm trees swayed 

On a black Spanish love seat behind the bamboo shade 

I woke up in a sweat, my legs feeling too weak to stand 

There's a pain in my back and not a bit of grip in my hands 

A flash of steel in the night 

Left me no time to write 

An epitaph to leave on my grave 

The church bells rang on a love seat behind the bamboo shade 

On a black Spanish love seat behind the bamboo shade 

With the skeletons dancing on the eve of the Day of the Dead 

If you see Juan 

Tell him I can't come 

I've got a previous engagement I've made 

I'm on a black Spanish love seat behind the bamboo shade