Intro
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Verse 1
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There's been a change in me my friends ever since I crossed the border 
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Another gringo has become a lonely desperado 
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I ride the hills of Mexico searching for her secrets 
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I am Juan the lonely desperado out among the cactus 
 
Verse 2
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Hey hombre would you like to buy a poncho and sombrero 
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Five hundred pesos later I am mucho desperado 
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From the back of a wild eyed stallion out there in the plaza 
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I gallup away in a cloud of dust ah just like Poncho Villa 
 
Verse 3
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With silver spurs and silver bits and long tapederos 
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I cross the high Sonorans as a lonely desperado 
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A village had been taken by bandidos from Diablo 
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So I ride in like Clint Eastwood with my blazing pistoleros 
 
Verse 4
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They gathered round my stirrup friends and praised this caballero 
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The senoritas cried as one voice Juan you are my hero 
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I must gallop on my way amigos north across the border 
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But I'll come back to Mexico as a lonely desperado