El Toreador Lyrics - Charlie Daniels Band

He was nobly born 

Had a spanish bull's horn 

And not one scar on his hansom face 

He stood like a prince 

And he had ever since 

He had grandly walked into the place 

Though the girls of Madrid 

Tonight were forbid 

For tomorrow he must fight once more 

Before he left the bar 

He would dance with them all 

Cause he was El Toreador 

The day of the feast 

Was just a lie in the east 

When he left Maria's warm bed 

Her dark eyes said more 

But he walked through the door 

Shaking cobwebs of dreams from his head 

And later that day 

As he knelt to pray 

He said God grant me this nothing more 

If it is the way 

And I must die today 

Let me die like a Toreador 

The pageant he chose 

Shook from the roar 

As the band played the Toreador's theme 

Alarmed by the sound 

The bull paws the ground 

As the Toreador enters the ring 

Up and down, round and round 

On and on, all alone 

The Plaza del Toros 

Shook from the roar 

As the band played the Toreador's theme 

Alarmed by the sound 

The bull paws the ground 

As the Toreador enters the ring 

Up and down, 

Round and round 

On and on, all alone 

The shouts of ole 

In the heat of the day 

Rushed the hot blood to his Spanish heart 

And the crowd held their breath 

As he flirted with death 

And the bull fighter's sword found it's mark 

And trying to hide 

The wound in his side 

He walked from the ring standing tall 

And a crowd gathered round 

As he fell to the ground 

A priest held his hand 

Where he lay in the sand 

And he was heard to say 

A brave bull died today 

But he died like a Toreador