Down the Rio Grande - Tom Russell

Baby pulled her blue dress on and walked out in the night

Left one silk stocking danglin' from the bedside light

I sobered up and called her name just before the dawn

I followed footprints through the sand, I knew where she had gone

Down The Rio Grande

Down the Rio Grande.

Pulled out of Albuquerque, must have been past 8:00

Four cups of coffee and I hit the interstate

Rolling through Las Cruces, I thought I saw her car

She always said she’d go someday, she never said how far

Down The Rio Grande, Down The Rio Grande

Maybe she’s in Brownsville, she’s got some family there

She always talked about the salty Gulf Coast air

Where the river ends, Down The Rio Grande