The song Spanish Johnny is performed by Emmylou Harris in the album named Singin' with Emmylou, Vol. 1 in the year 2000 .
(Paul Siebel)
Those other years, the dusty years
We drove the big hers through
I tried to forget the miles we rode
And Spanish Johnny too
He'd sit beside a water ditch when all this herd was in
And he'd never harm a child but sing to his mandolin
The old talk, the old ways, and the dealin' of our game
But Spanish Johnny never spoke, but sing a song of Spain
And his talk with men was vicious talk
When he was drunk on gin
Ah, but those were golden things he said to his mandolin
We had to stand, we tried to judge, we had to stop him then
For the hand so gentle to a child had killed so many men
He died a hard death long ago before the road come in
And the night before he swung he sung to his mandolin
Well, we carried him out in the mornin' sun
A man that done no good
And we lowered him down in the cold clay
Stuck in a cross of wood
And a letter we wrote to his kinfolk
To tell them where he'd been
And we shipped it out to Mexico, along with his mandolin
Emmylou Harris - Singin' with Emmylou, Vol. 1
Singin' with Emmylou, Vol. 1
- Angel Eyes
- Only the Heart May Know
- That's All It Took [Live]
- What Could Have Been
- Oh Carolina
- Here We Are
- Woman Walk the Line
- Walk Through the Bottomland
- You Are
- Spanish Johnny
- Mexican Wind
- Anyhow, I Love You
- Just Like You
- Nobody's
- Just Can't Believe It
- Rachel
- Our Baby's Gone
- Hometown Blues
- Streets of This Town (Ode to Fernwood)
- Fourteen Days