"Reynosa - Old Mexico" Words
and music by: Red Johnson
Pub. Count Music BMI 1999
This song was written after we took a trip on "the chicken train" from
Matamoros to Reynosa along the Mexican border. If you have ridden the train you could see
how it would be impossible to write a love song about that, though it was an experience.
So I put my imagination to work and this is what happened.
"Reynosa -Old Mexico"
The sun was burning like blazes
When I crossed into old Mexico
Heard the music from the cantina
Saw her there in the rooms darkened glow
Her smile made me more than welcome
As I pulled up a chair and sat down
But the reason her table was empty
Was unknown to this stranger in town
2. Everyone knew of the danger
To be caught with the bandito's wife
To win meant a moment of heaven
To lose meant to pay with your life
But I had no way of knowing
Whose place I was taking that day
As we danced to El Rancho Grande
She was stealing my heart away
1st chorus:
She got on, the train in Reynosa
And headed for somewhere
In old Mexico
She got on, the train in Reynosa
And left me here crying
In Reynosa old Mexico
3. Now back on this side the border
And heading for old san Antone
I think of the things that she told me
And can't leave her down there alone
She warned me and tried to protect me
But I think in her heart she must know
I'd meet every train in Reynosa
And together leave old Mexico
2nd chorus:
She got off-the train in Reynosa
We headed for somewhere
In New Mexico
She got off-the train in Reynosa
Together we're leaving
Reynosa, old Mexico
Tag: and he'll never find us
Up here in New Mexico
