Carlos Zaragoza his home in Casas Grandes when the moon was full No money in his pocket, just a locket of his framed in gold He into El Sueco, stole a rooster called Gallo Del Cielo Then he swam the Rio Grande with that nestled Deep his arm.
El Gallo Del Cielo was a born in heaven so the legends say His wings they had broken, he had one eye Rollin' crazy in his And he'd a hundred fights, and the legends say one night near El Sueco They'd fought seven times, and seven times he'd Left roosters dead.
Hola, my Theresa, I am thinking of you now in San I 27 dollars and the good luck of your picture Framed in Tonight I'll put it all on the fighting spurs of Del Cielo And then I'll return to buy the Villa stole From long ago.
of San Diego, in the onion fields of Paco Monteverde The Pride of San Diego lay sleeping on a fancy bed of And laughed when Zaragoza pulled the one-eyed Del Cielo from beneath his But they when Zaragoza walked away with a dollar bill.
Hola, my Theresa, I am of you now in Santa Barbara I have fifteen dollars and the good luck of Your picture in gold Tonight put it all on the fighting spurs of Gallo Del Cielo And then I'll return to buy the Villa stole From long ago.
Now the moon has gone to hiding and the lantern Spills shadows on a fighting Where a wicked black named faces Gallo del Cielo in the night But Carlos Zaragoza fears the tiny that runs across his rooster's beak And he fears he has lost the thousand dollars riding on the fight.
Hola, my Theresa, I am of you now in Santa Clara Yes, the on the table, I am holding to Your good luck framed in And everything we've dreamed of is on the spurs of Del Cielo I pray I'll return to buy the land Villa stole from father long ago.
Then the it was given, and the cocks rose far above the sand El Gallo del sunk a gaff into Zorro's shiny breast They were separated quickly but rose and fought other thirty seven times And the legends say everyone agreed that del Cielo fought the best.
the screams of Zaragoza filled the night outside The town of Clara As the of del Cielo lay broken like a shell within his hand And say that Zaragoza screamed a curse 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 framed in gold I buried it last with the bones of my Beloved Del And I'll not return to buy the land Villa from long ago.
Do the rivers run muddy outside of my beloved Casas
Oes the scar upon my brother's turn red when He hears mention of my Do the people of El Sueco curse the of Gallo del Cielo? Well, tell my not to worry, I will not return To cause shame.