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Hills Of Mexico - Ricky Skaggs

When I's in old Fort Worth in eighteen and eighty-three

Saw a Mexican cowboy come ridin' up to me

Sayin' how are you young fellow how would you like to go

And spend another summer in the hills of Mexico

Well I had no appointment back to him I did say

It's accordin' to your wages

Accordin' to your pay

I will pay to you good wages and often too you know

If you'll spend another season in the hills of Mexico

Now with all this flatterin' talkin' he signed up quite a train

Some ten or twelve in number some able bodied men

And our trip it was pleasant as we hit the western road

Till we crossed the old Peace River to those hills of Mexico

It was there our pleasures ended and our troubles all begun

Was a lightening storm that hit us and made the cattle run

And we all got full of stickers from the cactus that did grow

And the outlaws there to rob us in those hills of Mexico

Well they sent along that old steamboat and back to home did go

How those bells started ringing the whistles they did blow

Going back to friends and loves ones and I'll tell them not to go

To that God-forsaken country in those hills of Mexico