?[00:05.88]Born under a south Kentucky sky [00:11.24]He'd come west to Mexico to fight eighteen fourty two at Mier [00:19.72]The gutters filled with blood and fear [00:22.55]Barely made it back to texas alive [00:27.90]With missouri volunteers when the war began [00:33.83]Fourty six they crossed the Rio Grande [00:39.73]There he met his dark-eyed love [00:42.44]But said good bye when the war was done [00:45.31]He swore that he'd come back for her again [00:51.16]Oh oh novia [01:02.12]Oh oh your man is gone [01:13.91]Maybe he's in Texas [01:16.03]But we'll take what God has left us [01:19.22]And we'll leave for California with the dawn [01:25.17]Worked his way back to Old Mexico [01:30.79]To reclaim the love he'd left two years ago [01:36.60]Back to those same city walls [01:39.28]Where he'd watched copper cannonballs [01:42.16]Like wayward suns roll down the cobblestones [01:48.20]They put him in a prison left alone [01:53.77]With other yankee fools so far from home [01:59.53]Parade them through the square in chains [02:02.29]Till in rode Captain Glanton's gang [02:05.46]Apache scalps for bounties paid in gold [02:11.19]Oh oh novia [02:22.28]Oh oh your man is gone [02:33.91]Maybe he's in Texas [02:36.01]But we'll take what God has left us [02:39.17]And we'll leave for California with the dawn [02:45.28]Glanton's men were killers all by trade [02:50.83]And through the prison bars a deal was made [02:56.57]Glanton needed three new men [02:59.08]Hired the lovelorn veteran [03:02.04]The killers rode out through the governor's gates [03:07.81]The Veteran left camp fore the rising sun [03:13.19]No killer he'd left other work undone [03:19.34]He was not yet two days out [03:22.10]When Glanton's naked native scouts [03:24.76]Brought back his empty horse and his brand new gun [03:30.74]Oh oh novia [03:42.04]Oh oh your man is gone [03:53.51]Maybe he's in Texas [03:55.57]But we'll take what God has left us [03:58.83]And we'll leave for California with the dawn [04:04.86]Oh oh novia [04:15.88]Oh oh your man is gone [04:27.55]Maybe he's in Texas [04:29.46]But we'll take what God has left us [04:32.65]And we'll leave for California with the dawn [04:36.29]