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