A Border Romance

Lyrics

[Verse 1] She was a nobleman's daughter He was a dirt-poor cowhand On the Mexican boarder By the old Rio Grande How he courted and won her No one ever knew But they fled in the night By the quarter-moon's light When he asked for her hand [Verse 2] They fled from her family And their hot angry guns They fled through the desert The two hunted ones They fled to a future That neither could see But their young love was strong And it carried them on To their destiny [Verse 3] They fled toward the north star Through cactus and sand They fled through the desert And the empty badlands It was love that compelled them To run in the night Through rivers and streams Mirages like dreams To a far distant land [Verse 4] They rode on for ages Through the hot barren waste Looking over their shoulders For those who gave chase They forted wild waters In the dark of the night Where the stars in their eyes Mirrored stars in the skies As they rode to the light [Verse 5] In the hills of Montana Where the broad rivers flow In a snug little cabin Quite a few years ago My Grandma and Grandpa Holding hands by the fire Told of danger and chance Of a border romance And the love that still burns