Tonight We Ride Lyrics - Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs - Tom Russell

Panco 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 

Blackjack Pershing on a dancing horse was waiting in the wings 

Tonight we ride, tonight we ride 

We'll skin ole Pancho Villa, make chaps out of his hide 

Shoot his horse, Siete Leguas, and his twenty-seven bride 

Tonight we ride, tonight we ride 

We rode for three long years till Blackjack Pershing called it quits 

When Jackie wasn't lookin' 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 kissin' gals or smokin' 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 Reposado 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 headin' 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.