Josie Escalido

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Josie Escalido, she lived south of the border In a church her granddaddy's daddy built A little Catholic mission where she spent her days wishin' That he would come along and she'd be saved Jimmy was an outlaw, an outcast from the badlands He rode a horse as black as his heart Stayed hopped up on mezcal, chased whiskey with saloon gals But he never could get Josie off his mind [Chorus] He said, "Meet me after midnight, I'll be ridin' hot and fast And our love is like a slow dance, I'm just tryna make it last And I'm layin' down my six guns, and surrenderin' my heart And it'll be rosary and sangria, tequila, and a cross, outlaws, angels, and the lost" [Verse 2] Jimmy married Josie in that little mountain chapel He made a vow to Josie and the God He'd turn from his wicked ways and leave behind his outlaw days And pray for forgiveness from his sins But the past is like a storm that crashes in from the north Rode south with the posse set on death Blood all over Jimmy's hands and Josie lyin' in the desert sand With a bullet that tore Jimmy's heart in two [Chorus] And he screamed, "Meet me after midnight, I'll be ridin' hot and fast And our love is like a slow dance, I'm just tryna make it last And I'm layin' down my six guns, and surrenderin' my heart And it'll be rosary and sangria, tequila, and a cross, outlaws, angels, and the lost" [Verse 3] When you're searchin' for the devil, turns out he's not hard to find He rides a horse as black as his heart Hell and fire with two six guns, a black horse on a dead-end run When he rode into the rangers' camp at dawn Jimmy buried Josie in the ashes of that chapel, left the rangers lyin' in the sun Rode out towards the badlands and maybe God will understand that sometimes even angels will get lost [Chorus] And he cried, "Meet me after midnight, I'll be ridin' hot and fast And our love is like a slow dance, I'm just tryna make it last And I'm layin' down my six guns, and surrenderin' my heart And it'll be rosary and sangria, tequila, and a cross, outlaws, angels, and the lost"