Behind The Bamboo Shade-Joe Ely

In a border town when the lights go down And the Ranchero Radio plays You won't find me around in the lights of the town I'll be out where the day meets the shade I only came for a holiday to sit in the Mexican wind I only came for the whiskey, but suddenly she walked in She wore a dress made of lace And the light on her face I felt the room start to shake It shook a black Spanish love seat behind the bamboo shade I only came for the sun, but I wound up with the moon and the stars When her eyes met mine, the room filled with Spanish guitars The kerosene in my blood Came on like a flood As I stood to take her away To a black Spanish love seat behind the bamboo shade On a black Spanish love seat behind the bamboo shade With the skeletons dancing on the eve of the Day of the Dead I reached out in the dark Put my hand on her heart While the bows of the palm trees swayed On a black Spanish love seat behind the bamboo shade I woke up in a sweat, my legs feeling too weak to stand There's a pain in my back and not a bit of grip in my hands A flash of steel in the night Left me no time to write An epitaph to leave on my grave The church bells rang on a love seat behind the bamboo shade On a black Spanish love seat behind the bamboo shade With the skeletons dancing on the eve of the Day of the Dead If you see Juan Tell him I can't come I've got a previous engagement I've made I'm on a black Spanish love seat behind the bamboo shade