Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song South Coast, artist - Arlo Guthrie. Album song Son of the Wind, in the genre Музыка мира
Date of issue: 11.10.2010
Record label: Rising Son
Song language: English
South Coast |
My name is Juanano de Castro |
My father was a Spanish Grandee |
But I won my wife in a card game |
To hell with those lords o’er the sea |
Well the South Coast is wild coast and lonely |
You might win in a game at Cholon |
But a lion still rules the Barranca |
And a man there is always alone |
I played in a card game at Jolon |
I played there with an outlaw named Juan |
And after I’d taken his money |
I staked all against his daughter Dawn |
I picked up the ace… l had won her |
My heart it was down at my feet |
Jumped up to my throat in a hurry |
Like a young summer’s day she was sweet |
He opened the door to the kitchen |
And he called the girl out with a curse |
Saying «Take her, Goddamn her, you’ve won her |
She’s yours now for better or worse» |
Her arms had to tighten around me |
As we rode down the hills to the south |
Not a word did I hear from her that day |
Nor a kiss from her pretty young mouth |
But that was a gay happy winter |
We carved on a cradle of pine |
By the fire in that neat little cabin |
And I sang with that gay wife of mine |
Well the South Coast is wild coast and lonely |
You might win in a game at Cholon |
But a lion still rules the Barranca |
And a man there is always alone |
That night I got hurt in a landslide |
Crushed hip and twice broken bone |
She saddled her pony like lightning |
And rode off for the doctor in Cholon |
The lion screamed in the Barranca |
Buck, he bolted and he fell on his side |
My young wife lay dead in the moonlight |
My heart died that night with my bride |
Well the South Coast is wild coast and lonely |
You might win in a game at Cholon |
But a lion still rules the Barranca |
And a man there is always alone |