WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.780 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.780 --> 00:00:06.480 align:middle line:84% I'll read you all one more poem and call it a night. 00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:07.080 align:middle line:90% Let's see. 00:00:07.080 --> 00:00:10.110 align:middle line:84% How would we forget-- oh this goes there. 00:00:10.110 --> 00:00:12.210 align:middle line:84% You had the other chair there, didn't you? 00:00:12.210 --> 00:00:13.500 align:middle line:90% Oh I think I got it here. 00:00:13.500 --> 00:00:19.020 align:middle line:90% 00:00:19.020 --> 00:00:20.610 align:middle line:84% I got to keep these things I guess. 00:00:20.610 --> 00:00:58.070 align:middle line:90% 00:00:58.070 --> 00:01:00.290 align:middle line:84% I don't think this is working very well. 00:01:00.290 --> 00:01:03.320 align:middle line:90% 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:05.675 align:middle line:84% There's some sort of echoing going on in the guitar. 00:01:05.675 --> 00:01:11.260 align:middle line:90% 00:01:11.260 --> 00:01:12.400 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:12.900 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:01:12.900 --> 00:01:15.310 align:middle line:90% 00:01:15.310 --> 00:01:15.810 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:01:15.810 --> 00:01:36.370 align:middle line:90% 00:01:36.370 --> 00:01:40.690 align:middle line:84% This is about a girl by the name of Alma 00:01:40.690 --> 00:01:44.920 align:middle line:84% who we all danced with after a round up in Mexico. 00:01:44.920 --> 00:01:49.240 align:middle line:84% I was working for Carlos Yslava and I 00:01:49.240 --> 00:01:51.520 align:middle line:84% asked Carlos what had happened to the girl 00:01:51.520 --> 00:01:54.670 align:middle line:84% by the name of Alma who we all danced with. 00:01:54.670 --> 00:01:59.680 align:middle line:84% And we happened to be riding past a willow tree and a palm 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:00.250 align:middle line:90% tree. 00:02:00.250 --> 00:02:04.090 align:middle line:84% There are hardly any palms around there 00:02:04.090 --> 00:02:07.330 align:middle line:84% because the climate's too cold for them. 00:02:07.330 --> 00:02:11.436 align:middle line:84% In any case, Carlos began singing and what he sang was 00:02:11.436 --> 00:02:17.144 align:middle line:84% El sauce y la palma se mesclan con calma. 00:02:17.144 --> 00:02:22.602 align:middle line:84% Alma de mi alma, que linda eres tu. 00:02:22.602 --> 00:02:26.620 align:middle line:90% 00:02:26.620 --> 00:02:30.910 align:middle line:90% Alma born to Don Cruzita Alonso. 00:02:30.910 --> 00:02:36.550 align:middle line:84% Vaquero in the Cañon de Dimas, where the swallows come nesting 00:02:36.550 --> 00:02:37.960 align:middle line:90% by the red cliffs. 00:02:37.960 --> 00:02:39.700 align:middle line:90% No, I wrote that. 00:02:39.700 --> 00:02:43.150 align:middle line:90% Carlos wrote the part about-- 00:02:43.150 --> 00:02:44.575 align:middle line:90% said the part about Alma. 00:02:44.575 --> 00:02:48.650 align:middle line:90% 00:02:48.650 --> 00:02:50.450 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:02:50.450 --> 00:02:55.790 align:middle line:84% So anyway, I began this story poem with those first four 00:02:55.790 --> 00:02:58.010 align:middle line:90% lines that Carlos IS saying. 00:02:58.010 --> 00:03:09.110 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:03:09.110 --> 00:03:14.700 align:middle line:90% Alma born to Don Cruzita Alonso. 00:03:14.700 --> 00:03:17.285 align:middle line:90% Vaquero in the Cañon de Dimas. 00:03:17.285 --> 00:03:19.860 align:middle line:90% 00:03:19.860 --> 00:03:23.730 align:middle line:84% Where the swallows come nesting by the red cliffs 00:03:23.730 --> 00:03:27.060 align:middle line:84% in the springtime, Sonora, Mexico. 00:03:27.060 --> 00:03:31.170 align:middle line:90% 00:03:31.170 --> 00:03:37.290 align:middle line:84% Where did the swallows go passing with these West winds. 00:03:37.290 --> 00:03:43.780 align:middle line:84% Where do they nest for a while and then go. 00:03:43.780 --> 00:03:49.720 align:middle line:84% When she was a young girl her mother didn't want her. 00:03:49.720 --> 00:03:55.105 align:middle line:84% So took her to town to Doña Petra. 00:03:55.105 --> 00:03:57.970 align:middle line:90% 00:03:57.970 --> 00:04:02.980 align:middle line:84% Where did the swallows come passing with these East West 00:04:02.980 --> 00:04:04.060 align:middle line:90% winds. 00:04:04.060 --> 00:04:09.920 align:middle line:84% Where do they nest for a while and then go. 00:04:09.920 --> 00:04:16.220 align:middle line:84% When she was sweet 16, Doña Petra didn't want her. 00:04:16.220 --> 00:04:21.070 align:middle line:84% So she went to live with her Uncle Peru. 00:04:21.070 --> 00:04:23.630 align:middle line:90% 00:04:23.630 --> 00:04:29.920 align:middle line:84% She was shot through the heart by Peru's jealous wife. 00:04:29.920 --> 00:04:35.420 align:middle line:84% And she's buried in the Canyon at El Ranchito. 00:04:35.420 --> 00:04:42.570 align:middle line:90% 00:04:42.570 --> 00:04:47.715 align:middle line:84% Where will your hates and your jealous loves go? 00:04:47.715 --> 00:04:51.480 align:middle line:90% 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:56.355 align:middle line:90% Who are we here wanting to know? 00:04:56.355 --> 00:05:00.510 align:middle line:90% 00:05:00.510 --> 00:05:05.030 align:middle line:90% Who are we here wanting to know? 00:05:05.030 --> 00:05:10.961 align:middle line:90% 00:05:10.961 --> 00:05:15.760 align:middle line:84% Shy whirling all my tense and your young old eyes, 00:05:15.760 --> 00:05:21.370 align:middle line:84% we carousing vaqueros chased all night till the sunlight lit 00:05:21.370 --> 00:05:24.400 align:middle line:90% our camp on the town street. 00:05:24.400 --> 00:05:30.070 align:middle line:84% Between our round up Jefe's house and hers. 00:05:30.070 --> 00:05:33.310 align:middle line:84% Como un águila bajando a un lepe, 00:05:33.310 --> 00:05:38.710 align:middle line:84% Roberto bailó con la señoritas in Agua Prieta. 00:05:38.710 --> 00:05:42.970 align:middle line:84% Like an eagle dropping down on a dogie calf, 00:05:42.970 --> 00:05:47.005 align:middle line:84% Roberto danced with a señorita in our prieta. 00:05:47.005 --> 00:05:50.540 align:middle line:90% 00:05:50.540 --> 00:05:53.660 align:middle line:84% Where will the old Earth take you 00:05:53.660 --> 00:06:00.690 align:middle line:84% dancing through this starlight, whirling us all on and on 00:06:00.690 --> 00:06:03.320 align:middle line:90% while we she goes. 00:06:03.320 --> 00:06:06.280 align:middle line:84% Where will the old Earth take you 00:06:06.280 --> 00:06:10.550 align:middle line:84% dancing through this starlight, whirling us 00:06:10.550 --> 00:06:15.410 align:middle line:90% all on and on while she goes. 00:06:15.410 --> 00:06:20.780 align:middle line:84% West from the San Bernardino river through Gallirdo 00:06:20.780 --> 00:06:23.630 align:middle line:90% Pass we rode in the dusk light. 00:06:23.630 --> 00:06:26.630 align:middle line:84% Lost two steers in the nighttime. 00:06:26.630 --> 00:06:30.920 align:middle line:84% Rode on again another day in Agua Prieta, 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:33.920 align:middle line:84% through dirt streets and Mexican kids 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:38.450 align:middle line:84% running by the sides of the road, throwing rocks at stray 00:06:38.450 --> 00:06:43.010 align:middle line:84% steers until we came to the border corrals. 00:06:43.010 --> 00:06:46.460 align:middle line:84% And with tequila and corridos floating 00:06:46.460 --> 00:06:50.720 align:middle line:84% through the cantinas and the women and the songs, 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:54.560 align:middle line:84% we forgot the dust and the wild cattle 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:58.730 align:middle line:84% and the cold of the mornings and the winding trails, 00:06:58.730 --> 00:07:03.200 align:middle line:84% and changed the town to some whirling place 00:07:03.200 --> 00:07:05.105 align:middle line:90% we didn't remember or know. 00:07:05.105 --> 00:07:11.350 align:middle line:90% 00:07:11.350 --> 00:07:17.650 align:middle line:84% Where will those loves and your laughing black eyes 00:07:17.650 --> 00:07:21.380 align:middle line:90% and the winding river go. 00:07:21.380 --> 00:07:27.450 align:middle line:90% 00:07:27.450 --> 00:07:32.210 align:middle line:90% Who are we here wanting to know. 00:07:32.210 --> 00:07:35.692 align:middle line:90% 00:07:35.692 --> 00:07:40.310 align:middle line:90% Who are we here wanting to know? 00:07:40.310 --> 00:07:44.070 align:middle line:90% 00:07:44.070 --> 00:07:46.300 align:middle line:90% [WHISTLING] 00:07:46.300 --> 00:08:10.000 align:middle line:90%