[Intro ]
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We were standing on a mountain top  
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Where the cactus flowers grow  
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I was wishing that the world would stop  
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When you said we'd better go  

We took a rowboat across the Rio Grande  
Captain Pablo was our guide  
For two dollars and a weathered hand  
He rowed us to the other side  


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And we were dreamin like  
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The end was not in site  
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And we dreamed all afternoon  
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We asked the world to wait  
Bm                     G(strum slowly)  So we could celebrate  
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A gringo honeymoon  


We stepped out on to the golden sand  
The sun was high and burning down  
Rented donkeys from an old blind man  
Saddled up and rode to town  

Tied the donkeys to an iron wood tree  
On the street where children played  
We went in the first place we could see  
Servin cold beer in the shade  

And we were drinkin like  
The end was not in site  
And we drank all afternoon  
We asked the world to wait  
So we could celebrate  
A gringo honeymoon  

Met a cowboy who said that he  
Was running from the DEA  
He left his home and wife and family  
When he made his getaway  

We followed him on down a street of dust  
To his one room run down shack  
He blew a smoke ring and he smiled at us  
I ain't never goin back  

And we were flyin like  
The end was not in site  
And we soared that afternoon  
We asked the world to wait  
So we could celebrate  
A gringo honeymoon  

He said there is one last place that you should go  
He took us to the towns best bar  
He know a crusty caballero  
Who played an old gut string guitar  

And he sang like Marty Robbins could  
Played like no one I have known  
For a while we knoew that life was good  
And it was ours to take back home  

And we were singin like  
The end was not in site  
And we sang all afternoon  
We asked the world to wait  
So we could celebrate  
A gringo honeymoon  

We were standing on a mountain top  
Where the cactus flowers grow  
I was wishing that the world would stop  
When you said we'd better go