Dave Alvin Rio Grande Lyrics

Rio Grande Lyrics

Dave Alvin/Tom Russell



(Blue Horn Toad Music, BMI/Frontera Music, ASCAP)







 



I guess she put her blue dress on



And walked out late last night



Left one silk stocking 



Dangling from the bedside light



I sobered up and called her name 



Just before the dawn



I saw her footprints in the sand 



And knew that she had gone



Down the Rio Grande.







I pulled out of Albuquerque 



Prayin' I wasn't late



I got a couple cups of coffee



At some joint off the interstate



Passin' through Las Cruces



I swear I saw her car



She always said she'd go someday



But never said how far



Down the Rio Grande.







Maybe she's in Brownsville



She's got some family there



She was always talkin' ‘bout



The salty Gulf Coast air



Where the river ends



Down the Rio Grande.







I saw an old grey heron



Flyin' south against the wind



Storm clouds over Juarez



Rollin' east to the Big Bend



I drove down Highway Ninety



Through a dusty desert wind



I didn't know where it would lead me



Or if I'd find her again



Down the Rio Grande.







I lit my last cigarette



As the sky began to clear



Black mountains up ahead



A red sundown in my mirror



Lost all the border 



‘Tween the future and the past



One fading slowly



And the other comin' fast



Down the Rio Grande.







Maybe she's in Brownsville



She's got some family there



She was always talkin' ‘bout



The salty gulf coast air



Where the river ends



Down the Rio Grande.







I bought a bottle in Del Rio



And I parked on the side of the road



I stayed up all night 



Starin' at the lights of Mexico



And I walked down to border bridge



At the break of day



And I threw that empty bottle off



And I watched it float away



Down the Rio Grande.







Maybe she's in Brownsville



She's got some family there



She was always talkin ‘bout



The salty gulf coast air



Where the river ends



Down the Rio Grande



Where the river ends.