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I'll read you-- yeah, I'll read.

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I'll read you
"Juan's Last Trail."

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There was Juan [? Sagasta ?]
who worked for most of us.

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He was from-- oh probably
about 50 miles to the South--

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probably not quite
that far in Mexico.

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And Juan would come you know
when he ran out of money

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and he needed some work.

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And he'd stay as long as he
wanted and then he'd leave.

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He wasn't too
reliable but he was

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he was a delight to be around.

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Anyway, this is called
"Juan's Last Trail".

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There's old Juan walking along
the ridge line from Mexico

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Route 2 through the border
fence then down the rough side

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of the Canyon to
the Escondida camp

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where he hoped his friend
Walterio would be waiting.

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Tortillas in a sack, a half
filled bottle of tequila.

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Old heart walking centuries
singing dry times these range

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lands and wet back trails.

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His own people Sonora Mexico.

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Where are you headed, Juan?

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Where there's work
to do, he'd say.

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Old vaquero following
traces of cattle

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trails, drifting through these
blue Peloncillo mountain range

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lands to find work in America.

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Humming the flies along
that winding path,

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trembling side oats seeds.

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Mira, there, says Roberto, look
past those mesquite leaves.

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Faded Levi's, tan shirt,
sombrero by the cliff rocks.

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Where the trail climbs the
ridge line, do you see him?

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A hawk goes gliding
low over Juan's bones.

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Sunlight and the rains,
summertime the worms,

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odor like a cow dead
about four weeks.

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Grease from his body turning
the sideoats grasses brown.

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Grease, coyotes,
lightning, who knows.

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Early fall clouds rolling
over these ridge lines.

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Our bodies, clouds
dry falling seeds.

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Pretty quick, a man disappears
in these winds and the creeks

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and the mountain sands.

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Oh dust in the wind drift in now
on this Guadalupe Canyon Trail.

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Where are you headed, Juan?

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Siempre tengo mi camino
in la punta de los pies.

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Always my way is
before me he said.

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Only the tips of my feet
know where I will go.

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