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Border Town Girl

from BORDER RADIO by Todd Hearon

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lyrics

BORDER TOWN GIRL

We were low on tequila as the morning came down
So we coasted on enmity to the next border town
At Diablo’s Cantina caught her first through the flies
She was loading up deadmen, I drank deep with my eyes
Singing Sweet Margarita with a twist and a twirl
And that was my shot with the border town girl

She had eyes black as midnight, take you back to the days
When the hulls of conquistadors cut through the waves
And the spades of Tampico shoveled out the French dead
And the corpses of Goliad danced through your head
Singing Sweet Margarita with a twist and a twirl
Shots all around for my border town girl

She was High California
She was Sonora range
Was the wilds of New Mexico
Before it was known by that name
’Cross the badlands of the Indians
On wild horses we ride
Through the dreamland of the Texians
And all their imagined barbed wire
Singing Sweet Margarita with a twist and a twirl
And that was my shot with the border town girl

Well God help the fools, they building a wall
Ain’t nothing gonna keep me from Diablo’s back stall
Gonna trump every hand they play, when they lay the last cards
They’ll find me in yesterday, back in her arms
Singing Sweet Margarita with a twist and a twirl
Sharing a shot with my border town girl

She was High California
She was Sonora range
Was the wilds of New Mexico
Before it was known by that name
’Cross the badlands of the Indians
On wild horses we ride
Through the dreamland of the Texians
And all their imagined barbed wire
Singing Sweet Margarita with a twist and a twirl
And that was my shot with the border town girl

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from BORDER RADIO, released August 20, 2021
Acoustic Guitar and Vocals: Todd Hearon
Vocal Harmonies: Scott Heron, Betsy Heron, Melissa Foley, Kevin Kidd
Pedal Steel: Dan Beller-McKenna
Harmonica: Stu Barer
Mandolin: Glenn “Scotty” Scott
Horns: Marcus Rabb
Bass: Chris Caruso, Pete Iannitto
Drums: Aaron Zaroulis

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Todd Hearon Exeter, New Hampshire

Born in Fort Worth, Texas, and raised in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, Todd Hearon is a poet, author and songwriter living in Exeter, New Hampshire. His two studio albums are YODELADY (2023) AND BORDER RADIO (2021); he's also the author of three volumes of poems, a number of plays and essays, and a novella.

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