The Sands of Mexico-The Chieftains/Ry Cooder

[ti:The Sands of Mexico] [ar:Ry Cooder] [al:The Sands Of Mexico] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Sands of Mexico - The Chieftains/Ry Cooder (雷·库德) [00:10.52]We went down to Churubusco [00:14.06] [00:14.74]But the devil got there first; [00:17.40] [00:18.77]The road was hard the way was long [00:22.81]Churubusco was far worse [00:26.00] [00:26.73]Pressed in the Union Army [00:29.95] [00:30.66]And ordered off to go [00:33.96] [00:35.53]Along the southern border [00:38.07] [00:38.67]To the sands of Mexico [00:42.18] [00:44.80]Now we come from Cork and Kerry [00:48.21] [00:48.98]That emerald world has past [00:52.56] [00:53.47]My Mary would be pleased to know [00:57.25] [00:57.86]I'm a praying man at last [01:00.73] [01:01.95]In this distressed country [01:04.86] [01:05.76]Little comfort do we know; [01:08.28] [01:09.61]My Bible is my road map [01:12.94] [01:13.77]On the sands of Mexico [01:17.12] [01:20.21]When the road is cold up yonder I'll be there [01:25.42] [01:29.61]The boys will harmonize a lovely Irish air [01:36.06] [01:36.88]Take a message to my Mary [01:41.44]She's the one that's true I know: [01:44.70] [01:45.60]When you saw me I had fallen [01:48.94] [01:49.50]On the sands of Mexico [01:53.16] [01:55.80]Now the army used us harshly [01:59.13] [01:59.84]We were but trash to them [02:02.50] [02:03.69]Conscripted Irish farmers [02:06.89] [02:07.56]Not first class soldier men [02:10.69] [02:11.78]They beat us and they banged us [02:15.78]Mistreated us you know [02:18.26] [02:19.63]But they couldn't make us killers [02:23.31]On the sands of Mexico [02:27.00]That's why we call it faith [02:29.71] [02:30.82]That's why we call him Lord [02:33.59] [02:34.69]That's why I threw away [02:37.46] [02:38.04]My Yankee sword [02:40.63] [02:42.04]Our John Riley seized the day [02:45.14] [02:46.02]And marched us down the road [02:49.28] [02:49.97]And we wouldn't slay our brothers [02:54.25]On the sands of Mexico [02:57.80] [03:32.07]Faith and righteousness was all in vain [03:36.21] [03:38.16]Irish blood was spilled once again [03:43.14] [03:45.65]As I stand upon the gallows [03:50.00]It cheers the soul to know [03:52.72] [03:53.93]History will absolve us [03:57.13]On the sands of Mexico [04:01.76] [04:03.21]The sands of Mexico [04:06.10] [04:06.86]The bloody sands of Mexico [04:11.61] [04:13.14]La historia me absolverá [04:18.19]On the sands of Mexico