Carlos left his home in Casas Grandes when the moon was full No money in his pocket, just a locket of his sister in gold He rode into El Sueco, stole a rooster Gallo Del Cielo Then he swam the Rio Grande with that fighter beneath his arm.
El Del Cielo was a rooster born in heaven so the legends say His wings had been broken, he had one eye Rollin' crazy in his And fought a hundred fights, and the legends say That one night near El They'd Gallo seven times, and seven times he'd Left roosters dead.
Hola, my Theresa, I am thinking of you now in San I have 27 dollars and the luck of your picture in gold Tonight I'll put it all on the fighting spurs of Gallo Del And then I'll to buy the land Villa stole From father ago.
Outside of San Diego, in the onion of Paco Monteverde The Pride of San Diego lay sleeping on a bed of silk And they when Zaragoza pulled the one-eyed Del Cielo beneath his coat But cried when Zaragoza walked away with a dollar bill.
Hola, my Theresa, I am of you now in Santa Barbara I have hundred dollars and the good luck of Your picture in gold Tonight I'll put it all on the fighting spurs of Gallo Del And then I'll to buy the land Villa stole father long ago.
Now the moon has gone to hiding and the light Spills shadows on a fighting Where a wicked black Zorro faces Gallo del Cielo in the night But Zaragoza fears the tiny crack that runs across his rooster's beak And he fears he has lost the fifty dollars riding on the fight.
Hola, my Theresa, I am of you now in Santa Clara Yes, the money's on the table, I am to Your luck framed in gold And everything we've of is riding on the spurs of Del Cielo I that I'll return to buy the land Villa stole from father long ago.
Then the signal it was given, and the rose Together far above the El Gallo del Cielo a gaff into Zorro's shiny breast They separated quickly but they rose and fought Each other thirty seven And the legends say that agreed that del Cielo fought the best.
Then the screams of Zaragoza filled the outside The of Santa Clara As the beak of del Cielo lay broken a shell within his hand And they say that Zaragoza screamed a upon the of Pancho Villa When Zorro rose up one time and drove del through the sand.
Hola, my Theresa, I am of you now in San I no money in my pocket, I no longer have Your good framed in gold I it last evening with the bones of my Beloved Del And I'll not return to buy the land stole from Father ago.
Do the still run muddy outside of my beloved Grandes?
Oes the scar upon my brother's face turn red He hears of my name? Do the people of El curse the theft of Gallo del Cielo? Well, tell my family not to worry, I will not To them shame.