Rio Grande Lyrics

Artist: Dave Alvin
Album: Ashgrove

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.

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