Gringo's Guitar Lyrics - Perry Como

( Listen... shh... listen! There, it's playing again... 

Gringo's guitar playing songs of desire 

are sung by the haunted wind! ) 

Down in Nualo, Laredo, 

on the border of ol' Mexico 

there's a legend they tell of a cowboy, 

a tall Texas drover named "Joe" 

but the braseros just call him "Gringo", 

the gringo who played the guitar 

to the Mexican girl that he loved so, 

'neath the misty Mexico star 

( Listen... shh... listen! There, it's playing again... 

Gringo's guitar playing songs of desire 

are sung by the haunted wind! ) 

He sang of the day when they'd marry, 

when the round-up was over an' through 

and great were the plans for their wedding, 

and for dreams they dreamed would come true 

But he never came back from the round-up, 

a stampeding herd ran him down 

but, sometimes, strange and beautiful music 

of a guitar is heard through the town 

( Listen... shh... listen! There, it's playing again... 

Gringo's guitar playing songs of desire 

are sung by the haunted wind! ) 

Words and Music by Cindy Walker