Karaoké Gringo Honeymoon Robert Earl Keen

We were standin' on a mountain top where the cactus flowers grow

I was wishin' that the world would stop when you said we'd better go

We took a row boat across the Rio Grande

Captain Pablo was our guide

For two dollars in a weathered hand he rowed us to the other side

We were dreaming like the end was not in sight

And we dreamed all afternoon

We asked the world to wait so we could celebrate a gringo honeymoon

We stepped out onto the golden sand

The sun was high and burning down

Rented donkeys from an old blind man

Saddled up and rode to town

Tied our donkeys to an Ironwood tree by the stream where children play

We went in the first place we could see serving cold beer in the shade

We were drinking like the end was not in sight

And we drank all afternoon

We asked the world to wait so we could celebrate a gringo honeymoon

Met a cowboy who said that he was running from the DEA

He left his home, wife, and family when he made his getaway

We followed him on down a street at dusk to his run-down one-room shack

He blew a smoke ring and he smiled at us

I ain't never goin' back

We were flyin' like the end was not in sight

And we soared that afternoon

We asked the world to wait so we could celebrate a gringo honeymoon

He said, there's one last place that you should go

He took us to the town's best bar

He knew a crusty caballero who played an old gut-string guitar

And he sang like

Marty Robbins could

Played like no one I've known

For a while, we knew that life was good

It was ours to take back home

We were singing like the end was not in sight

And we sang all afternoon

We asked the world to wait so we could celebrate a gringo honeymoon

We were standin' on a mountain top where the cactus flowers grow

I was wishin' that the world would stop when you said we'd better go