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Hills of Mexico
Ricky Skaggs
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When I was in old Ft. Worth in 1883
Saw a Mexican cowboy come ridin' up to me
Sayin' "How are you young fellow, now would you like to go
And spend another summer in the hills of Mexico?"
Well I had no employment, back to him I did say
"It's accordin' to your wages, according to your pay
I will pay to you good wages, and often do you know
If you'll spend another season in the hills of Mexico"
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Now with all his flatterin' talkin' he signed up quite a train
Some ten or twelve in number, some able-bodied men
And our trip it was pleasant as we hit the western road
'Til we crossed the old Peace River to those hills of Mexico
It was there our pleasures ended and our troubles all begun
Was a lightnin' storm that hit us and made the cattle run
And we all got full of stickers from the cactus that did grow
And the outlaws there to rob us in those hills of Mexico
Well they sent along that old steamboat and back to home did go
How those bells started ringin', the whistles they did blow
Goin' back to friends and loved ones and I'll tell them not to go
To that God forsaken country in those hills of Mexico
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