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Needing sleep and hot and dirty on I drove through Alberquerque

I had one eye on the mirror for the law

When I pulled in for some gasoline six house from el paso

Seemed New Mexico went on for evermore

I was talking to the pump man

And you should have seen him jump man

When I told him I was heading for the heights

He said wait on until tomorrow cause a few miles from Socorro

Is a place you'll never leave by light of night

There's only buzzards and lizards and ornerary critturs

You've run out of luck if you get stuck in Trombone Gulch

Well I laughed and left him standing put a big tip in his hand

And drove on out ignoring all his shouts of thanks

But a few miles from Socorro I discovered to my horror

That his shouts had meant he hadn't filled the tank

There's only buzzards and lizards and ornerary critturs

You've run out of luck if you get stuck in Trombone Gulch

I knew I wasn't beaten yet I stumbled from the sedan

Cursing everyone from Satan up to God

And I pushed it to ledge and pushed it out across the edge

And knew the law would never see it from the road

And the dust came like a blizzard I got bitten by a lizard

And I fell down into canyons all the time

But I kept the road beside me cos I had to have it guide me

All the way to safety and the borderline

There's only buzzards and lizards and ornerary critturs

You've run out of luck if you get stuck in Trombone Gulch

When the sun came up from sleeping

And the morning came in creeping

I could see a signpost just on up ahead

It said Welcome to Socorro Did you like to ride our trombone

It goes right around the valley on a bend!

There's only buzzards and lizards and ornerary critturs

You've run out of luck if you get stuck in Trombone Gulch