Billy Walker Matamoros Lyrics

Matamoros Lyrics

In old Mexico I stand on the square in Matamoros



Round a Plazza the couples were walking to music so sweet



I've found my love not too long ago in Matamoros



But I'm feeling low as the beggar who sits in the street



All the promises that she made me with eyes black as midnight



How could I know how fickle her promise would be



Now I'm back to find for I feel is mine in Matamoros



And there'll be bad trouble if I catch her cheating on me







Streets're narrow and dark and tequilla runs free in Matamoros



I stopped for one moment outside at Maguel's swinging doors



My heart breaks to hear the same haunting sounds of Granada



She once called it our song and vowed should be mine evermore



Then across the square went this wild young bracero I see her



Laughing and dancing and tossing her raven black hair



They'd may take a hand when I face this man from Matamoros



For the love of my woman is one thing that I'll never share



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Now I walk in the night far away from the lights of Matamoros



And recall the last moments when I knew she loved me more than life



I can still hear her cry I love you and I'll prove it Manana



Then seeing my danger she jumped in front of his knife



I know the stories they'll tell in dimly casinos



Of the raven haired beauty who for her love laid dead on the floor



They'll speak of the fight with the gringo that night in Matamoros



And wonder what happened for he never returned anymore oh oh hoo