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My name is Milo Thomsey I’m a cowboy from Killeen

On the Arizona desert I have worked since seventeen

But the Drug-Lords and Banditos have a ransom on my life

And I will gladly pay to save my children and my wife

The border men and Sheriff they were nowhere to be found

When the son of Escondido fell into the creek and drowned

I rode and tried to save him as I dug his shallow grave

Another smuggler saw me and now I’m the one they blame

Was an old retired bandito used to cowboy on the Bell

He was brought up in the shanties and his childhood days were Hell

So he worked for Escondido bringing drugs across the line

‘Til he swore a vow of silence if he smuggled one last time

And he told me they would kill him if I told them how I found

The home of Escondido and his Becatate compound

So I’m bound for Hermasillo with his money and his drugs

Only God now can deliver through the border and his thugs

I told her I was leavin' and she knew I had to go

Our lives and half-blood children would be gone like desert snow

I gave her all the money that I had left to my name

Said «If you don’t make it to Prescott then my life will be in vain»

I filled up the gas tank of my beat-up dirty truck

And looked deep into her dark eyes one more time for better luck

I’ll see my love in Prescott or else on the other side

Then I steeled myself to take this midnight ride

At the iron gates of the compound by the high adobe wall

I recalled the son of ‘Dido how made his fatal fall

As the gates began to open and I slowly made it through

The guards were all around me and a rifle butt came through

The shattered glass and shouting was the last thing I recall

Til I woke ten hours later on a cold adobe wall

And sitting there before me in a three-piece linen suit

Was the man called Escondido wearin' alligator boots

So I told him what had happened and that I was all alone

When the cut-bank broke beneath his son and turned him into stone

I did not tell the lawmen and I’d never tell a soul

The drugs that I’ve returned to you are a token of my role

And I give my fate to you now but I beg you for the life

Of my black-hair, brown-eyed daughters and my sweet Apache wife

And the room it turned to silence but the pounding of my head

And I stared at Escondido for I knew that I was dead

Then he said I built a business out of honor and I see

That a man of honor hangs here on the wall in front of me

I will give you life and freedom and the lives of those you love

And you make your vow of silence and you never more speak of

The son of Escondido and my Becatate home

The bravery you’ve shown by coming here alone

Then they drove me to the desert with a band around my eyes

And I burned three days and wandered neath the Becatate skies

On the highway from Nogales through the Arizona rain

From the Becatate Mountains where a man could go insane

In the back of an old pickup with Tequila in a crate

I am thinking of my family and my miracle of fate

There’s a .45 colt pistol in my jeans upon its end

And a black-eyed girl in Prescott that I long to see again

And the sky is hot and empty out upon the desert ground

And the wheels upon the highway make a lonesome dreary sound

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