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
 
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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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