South Coast Lyrics

South Coast lyrics

My name is Juanano de Castro
My father was a Spanish Grandee
But I won
my wife in a card game
To hell with those lords o'er the sea
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Well the South Coast is wild coast and lonely
You might win
in a game at Cholon
But a lion still rules the Barranca
And a man
there is always alone
I played in a card game at Jolon
I played there
with an outlaw named Juan
And after I'd taken his money
I staked all
against his daughter Dawn
I picked up the ace...l had won her
My
heart it was down at my feet
Jumped up to my throat in a hurry
Like a
young summer's day she was sweet
He opened the door to the kitchen
And
he called the girl out with a curse
Saying "Take her, Goddamn her, you've
won her
She's yours now for better or worse"
Her arms had to tighten
around me
As we rode down the hills to the south
Not a word did I
hear from her that day
Nor a kiss from her pretty young mouth
But
that was a gay happy winter
We carved on a cradle of pine
By the fire
in that neat little cabin
And I sang with that gay wife of mine
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That night I got hurt in a landslide
Crushed hip and twice
broken bone
She saddled her pony like lightning
And rode off for the
doctor in Cholon
The lion screamed in the Barranca
Buck, he bolted
and he fell on his side
My young wife lay dead in the moonlight
My
heart died that night with my bride
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