Spanish Johnny (Album Version)-David Bromberg

[ti:Spanish Johnny] [ar:David Bromberg] [al:My Own House / You Should See The Rest Of The Band] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.97]Spanish Johnny (Album Version) - David Bromberg [00:02.28] [00:26.41]Those other years those dusty years [00:29.01] [00:30.50]When we drove the big hearse through [00:32.09] [00:38.64]I tried to forget the miles we rode [00:40.59] [00:42.72]And Spanish Johnny you [00:44.10] [00:52.08]He'd sit beside a water ditch [00:53.79] [00:56.27]When all his herd was in [00:57.75] [01:02.34]He'd never harm a child [01:03.44] [01:05.09]But sing to his mandolin [01:07.39] [01:12.47]He sang the old songs the old talk [01:15.27] [01:16.71]And the dealin' of our games [01:18.09] [01:23.09]Spanish Johnny seldom spoke [01:24.73] [01:27.27]But sang songs of Spain [01:28.55] [01:33.17]And his talk with men was vicious talk [01:35.06] [01:37.18]When he was drunk on gin [01:38.40] [01:43.42]But those were golden things he said [01:45.03] [01:48.17]To his mandolin [01:48.88] [02:15.08]We had to stand we had to judge [02:17.25] [02:18.97]We had to stop him then [02:20.86] [02:24.90]See those hands so gentle to a child [02:26.84] [02:29.26]Had killed so many men [02:30.63] [02:35.03]He died a hard death long ago [02:37.51] [02:39.12]Before the roads came in [02:40.49] [02:43.85]And the night before he swung [02:45.29] [02:46.61]He sang to his mandolin [02:49.00] [03:13.39]We carried him out in the morning light [03:15.66] [03:17.17]The man who done no good [03:18.58] [03:21.99]Laid him down in a cold cold clay [03:24.11] [03:25.94]Stuck in a cross of wood [03:27.35] [03:32.26]And a letter we wrote to his kinfolks [03:34.17] [03:36.58]To tell'em where he'd been [03:37.77] [03:43.00]We shipped it on down to Mexico [03:44.59] [03:47.15]Along with the mandolin