Key: D minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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( Listen... shh... listen! There,
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it's playing again...
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Grin go's guitar playing songs of desire
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are sung by the haunted wind! )
Verse 2
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Down in Nualo, Laredo,
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on the border of ol' Mex ico
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there's a legend they tell of a cowboy,
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a tall Texas drover named "Joe"
but the braseros just call him "Gringo",
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the gringo who played the gui tar
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to the Mexican girl that he loved so,
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'neath the misty Mexico
star
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Verse 3
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( Listen... shh... listen! There,
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it's playing again...
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Gringo's guitar playing
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songs of desire
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are sung by the haunted wind! )
Verse 4
He sang of the day when they'd marry,
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when the round- up was over an' through
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and great were the plans
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for their wedding,
and for dreams they dreamed
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would come true
But he never came back from the round- up,
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a stampeding herd ran him down
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but, sometimes, strange and beautiful music
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of a guitar is heard through
the town
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Verse 5
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( Listen... shh... listen! There,
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it's playing again...
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Gringo's guitar playing
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songs of desire
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are sung by the haunted
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wind! )
Outro 1
Words and Music by Cindy Walker
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