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Intro
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Well, they shot poor old Lupe Montosa
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They gunned him down about the bootlegger's spring
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They stole his only silver ring
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They wrecked all his distilling things
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And made a widow of his sweet little wife Rosa
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They found an old curandero, to bury the mescalero
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While his family cried for thirteen nights and days...
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When Lupito asked his momma why his papa had to go and die,
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She said, "Dios works in the most loco of ways"
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So, the Padre tried to settle down, the angry mob that gathered round
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He said, "Let no more tears flow, let's let no more blood spill.
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People don't you take revenge, in time the lord will surely avenge this crime
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For Lupe, and the untimely death of our still."
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Well, they shot poor old Lupe Montosa
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They gunned him down about the bootlegger's spring
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They stole his only silver ring
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They wrecked all his distilling things
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And made a widow of his sweet little wife Rosa
Solo
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When they found the man who shot down poor old Lupe,
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You know their lives were just barely a-flicker...
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See they'd all lost their minds,
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Each one was permanently blind,
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With drinking too much of poor Lupe's good liquor
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Yeah, they shot down poor Lupe Montosa
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They gunned him down about the bootlegger's spring
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They stole his only silver ring
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They wrecked all his distilling things
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And made a widow of his sweet little wife Rosa
Outro:
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