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Testi Kingston Trio - South Coast
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South Coast, the wild coast, is lonely. You may win at the game at Jolon,
But the lion still rules the barranca, and a man there is always alone.
My name is Juan Hano de Castro. My father was a Spanish grandee,
But I won my wife in a card game, when a man lost his daughter to me.
I picked up the ace. I had won her! My heart, which was down at my feet
Jumped up to my throat in a hurry- Like a warm summers' day, she was sweet.
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Her arms had to tighten around me as we rode up the hills from the South.
Not a word did I hear from her that day- or a kiss from her pretty red mouth.
We came to my cabin at twilight. The stars twinkled out on the coast.
She soon loved the valley- the orchard- but I knew that she loved me the most.
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Then I got hurt in a landslide with crushed hip and twice-broken bone.
She saddled our pony like lightning- rode off in the night, all alone.
The lion screamed in the barranca; the pony fell back on the slide.
My young wife lay dead in the moonlight. My heart died that night with my
bride.
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Daughters were possessions, to be bet away or arranged marriages for; also, note
the use of
- Jerry Rivera - Never Leave You
- Tom Waits - Lowside Of The Road
- GREAT BIG SEA - Berry Picking Time
- Beth Orton - Bobby Gentry
- Bottle Rocket - Babble On
- Stills Stephen - 50 50 Stephen Stills Joe Lala
- Toby Keith - I Can't Take You Anywhere
- Sir Mix-a-lot - Seminar
- Giorgia - Chiaraluce
- Unknown - Strangers In My Soup
- God Dethroned
Nome Album : Unknown - Phil Collins
Nome Album : 12'ers - Ani Difranco
Nome Album : Reckoning/Revelling: Reckoning Disc - Emmylou Harris feat Gran Parsons
Nome Album : Unknown - Guano Apes
Nome Album : Planet Of The Apes