Gringo's Guitar ( Listen . . . shh . . . listen! There, it's playing again . . . Gringo's guitar playing songs of desire are sung by the haunted wind! ) Down in Nuevo, Laredo, on the border of ol' Mexico there's a legend they tell of a cowboy, a tall Texas drover named "Joe" but the braceros 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 . . . 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 | Session | Album Notes | Album Review | Perry Como with The Anita Kerr Quartet Produced by Chet Atkins and Arranged by Anita Kerr Recorded in RCA Victor's "Nashville Sound" Studio, Nashville, Tennessee, February 9th to 12th, 1965 Recording Engineers: Chuck Seitz and William Vandevort |
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