Letra de Spanish Johnny
(Paul Siebel) Waylon Jennings & Emmylou HarrisThose other years the dusty years We drove the big herds through I tried to forget the miles we rode And Spanish Johnny too.He'd sit beside a water ditch When all his herd was in And he'd never harm a child But sing to his mandolin.The old talk, the old ways And the dealing of our game Spanish Johnny never spoke But sang a song of Spain.And his talk with men was vicious Talk when he was drunk on gin Ah, but those were golden things He said to his mandolin.--- Instrumental ---We had to stand, we tried to judge We had to stop him then For the hand so gentle to a child Had killed so many men.He died a hard death long ago Before the road come in And the night before he swung He sung to his mandolin.Well, we carried him out in the morning sun A man that done no good And we lowered him down in the cold clay Stuck in a cross of wood.And the letter we wrote to his kinfolk To tell them where he'd been And we shipped it out to Mexico Along with his mandolin...