Border Town Lyrics

Carmelita was a street angel but she kept her halo hid
Never learned to read or write so well she was just a farmer's kid

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She took communion at the age of twelve, she wore a cross of wood
She heard the clanging of the mission bell
and she vowed that she'd be good

But the world goes round
And it's hard enough to stand your ground
There's always someone tryin' to keep you down
In a border town

Mamacita said you can't go down,
stay away from the white man's world
She drew the line at the edge of town
for her little dark-haired girl
But Carmelita she had other plans and her life had just begun

She ran away with a black-eyed man
and he left her with a black-eyed son

But the world goes round
And it's hard enough to stand your ground
There's always someone tryin' to keep you down
In a border town

Carmelita now she's settlin' down, she's not so free and wild
She rides a bus all the way across town
to love somebody else's child
Shows up each morning
right on time and at six o'clock she's gone
She keeps her distance and she toes the line
cause she knows where it's been drawn

But the world goes round
And it's hard enough to stand your ground
There's always someone tryin' to keep you down
In a border town