South Coast

South Coast - Dave Guard

Hmmm

South coast

The wild coast

Is lonely

You may win at the game at jolon

From lions 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

To hell with the Lords o'er the sea

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

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

Not 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

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

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

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 ohh