Panco Villa crossed the border in the year
The people of Columbus still hear him
riding through their dreams
He killed seventeen civilians you
could hear the women scream
Blackjack Pershing on a dancing horse
Tonight we ride, tonight we ride
We'll skin ole Pancho Villa,
make chaps out of his hide
Shoot his horse, Siete Leguas,
and his twenty- seven bride
Tonight we ride, tonight we ride
We rode for three long years till Blackjack
When Jackie wasn't lookin'
I stole his fine spade bit
It was tied upon his stallion,
To the wild Chihuahuan desert,
Tonight we ride, you bastards dare
We'll kill the wild Apache for
Then we'll ride into Durango,
climb up the whorehouse stairs
Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride
When I'm too damn old to sit a horse,
I'll steal the warden's car
Break my ass out of this prison,
leave my teeth there in a jar
You don't need no teeth for kissin'
gals or smokin' cheap cigars
I'll sleep with one eye open,
'neath God's celestial stars
Tonight we ride, tonight we ride
Tonight we fly, we're headin' west
Toward the mountains and the ocean
where the eagle makes his nest
If our bones bleach on the desert,
we'll consider we are blessed
