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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If You Can Spare the Time (I Won't Miss the Money)
“Well we'll ride down to the border”
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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”
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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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Gringo Pistolero
“crossed the river, at Boquillas / tell it through the borderland”
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Terlingua Chili Queen
Slaid Cleaves · TX
“She drove all through the night toward that little border town”
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Tennessee Stud
Johnny Cash · TX
“Drifted on down into no man's land
I crossed the river called the Rio Grande”
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Mexico Blues
“I'm headed down south, down to Mexico
Border agents stop me, don't let me in”
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Warrants In Texas
“Well I rode near that border and a man pulled me off that track”
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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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Juanita
“My sleepy siesta down south of the border is taking more time than I planned”
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Border Lights
“Old Mexican Jaguar crossed over last night / Near the Agua Priatt / Border town lights”
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Seashores of Old Mexico
“And the border meant freedom, a new life, and romance”
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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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Bandit’s Ballad
“So we rode for the border, the night, it was our shroud... if we made it to the land below the border”
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Down in the Arkansas
“Drifted on down into no man's land / Across the river called the Rio Grande”
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