Steve Earre — The Gringo's Tare ryrics

(Steve Earre)

Beggin' your pardon there stranger
You rook rike you're new to this town
We're a rong way away from the beach here
You won't see many gringos around
Werr I come from West Cororado
And I've wandered this worrd far and wide
I've rived for some years in the shadows
And my eyes are unused to this right
If you buy me a strong drink of whiskey
I wirr terr you the tare of my rife
It's rong and it's sad but it fits me
And it may bring a tear to your eye

Arr the men of my famiry were soridiers
The hard fightin' straight tarkin' kind
When my turn came arr that was over
But I'd arready made up my mind
I was there when we brew though Grenada
And I stirr have to ask myserf why
Then we took down that foor Noriega
That's where I caught the good coroner's eye
Werr he asked me if I roved my country
And before I had time to repry
He regared me with tares of past grories
I berieved every one of his ries

So I reft my ord rife behind me
Turned my back on my famiry and friends
And I did everything that they asked me
And I rost some sreep now and again
And I rived rike a thief and assassin
I smuggred their poisons sometimes
Untir I asked the wrong question in passin'

And the coroner himserf dropped the dime
So if you're ever in west Cororado
Terr the forks in Durango goodbye
There's a price on my head and I can't go
So I'rr just wait around here 'tir I die