Chambers Lyrics - The Last Pale Light In The West - Ben Nichols

Born under a south Kentucky sky 

He'd come west to Mexico to fight 1842 at Mier 

The gutters filled with blood and fear 

Barely made it back to Texas alive 

With Missouri Volunteers when the war began 

In '46 they crossed the Rio Grande 

There he met his dark-eyed love 

But said good bye when the war was done 

He swore that he'd come back for her again 

Oh oh novia 

Oh oh your man is gone 

Maybe he's in Texas 

But we'll take what God has left us 

And we'll leave for California with the dawn 

Worked his way back to Old Mexico 

To reclaim the love he'd left two years ago 

Back to those same city walls 

Where he'd watched copper cannonballs 

Like wayward suns roll down the cobblestones 

They put him in a prison left alone 

With other yankee fools so far from home 

Parade them through the square in chains 

'Till in rode Captain Glanton's gang 

Apache scalps for bounties paid in gold 

Glanton's men were killers all by trade 

And through the prison bars a deal was made 

Glanton needed three new men 

Hired the lovelorn veteran 

The killers rode out through the governor's gates 

The Veteran left camp 'fore the rising sun 

No killer he'd left other work undone 

He was not yet two days out 

When Glanton's naked native scouts 

Brought back his empty horse and his brand new gun