The river as RoadyGoat maps it; pins mark songs placed along it.
The Songs
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New Year’s Day
Charlie Robison · TX
“It's New Year's Day here on the border, and it's always been this way”
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A Border Tragedy
Robert Earl Keen · TX
“A Border Tragedy (song title) / an alley in Acuna / The old precinct station”
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El Chapo
“Only nigga walking through Sinaloa with the blood Red Chuck Taylors on and you know it when I show up”
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Border Town / Bury Me In Baja
The White Buffalo · TX
“There ain't no love at all in this border town”
Keechie and Bowie
Theo Lawrence · TX
“Keechie and Bowie were forty-five miles / Away from the border line / The long shiny barrels of a Texas patrol”
Tom Ames’ Prayer
Robert Earl Keen · TX
“Fell in with a crowd in some border town / And took to robbin' banks”
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The Legend of Chavo Guerrero
The Mountain Goats · TX
“Born down in El Paso where the tumbleweeds blow
To the middleweight champ of all of Mexico”
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What I Like About Texas
Jerry Jeff Walker · TX
“Driving across the border for some cultural exchange!”
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Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee)
“We died in your hills, we died in your deserts / We died in your valleys and died on your plains.”
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What I Like About Texas
Gary P. Nunn · TX
“It's crossing over the border for some cultural exchange!”
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