New Life In Old Mexico Lyrics - Robert Earl Keen

I crossed the Mississippi, 

Turned south at San Antone 

A bowie knife, a woolen coat, 

A grip bag on my arm 

It's all somebody needs to make it through the land 

Walk the night, travel light, cross the Rio Grande 

Someone strums a mandolin, soft gulf breezes blow 

My new life is waiting in old Mexico 

I was once a married man livin' peacefully 

Hard to say exactly when the devil blinded me 

But there was some confusion when my sweet 

Wife left this world 

Darker times, drunken crimes, 

A dead young working girl 

Left a jailer there in Caroline, 

Watching me from down below 

My new life is waiting in old Mexico 

Livin' in the shadows 

Runnin' from my fame 

Blowin' where the wind blows 

Where no one knows my name 

In the El Vaquero Bar in the town of Eagle Pass 

Moments from my freedom warm whiskey in my glass 

Some boracho took me for the man who stole his wife 

He went for his forty-four as I reached for my knife 

He never fired a second shot he was just too slow 

My new life is waiting in old Mexico