Letra de El Llano Estacado

[with Tom Russell]
Crazy with love – Enamorado! Alone out on the Llano Estacado
“"If I may trust your love,”" she cried, "you would have me for a bride
Ride the wild plain and bring a flask of water from the Mustang Spring
Fly as on the eagle's wing, a‘cross the Llano Estacado.”"
He smiled and left without a word, grabbed up saddle, bit, and spur
Cinched his horse and rode away through prickley pear and old Maguey
Vanished with the dying day o'er the Llano Estacado
All through the night he galloped on, daylight broke, he rode along
Spurred his horse and drew no rein across that dry, forsaken plain
Until the Mustang Spring he gained on the Llano Estacado
Crazy with love – Enamorado! Alone out on the Llano Estacado
A little rest, a few short drinks, across the spring a buzzard winked
His flask was filled and so he turned to gain the bride he soon would earn
But the sky, bright red it burned, on the Llano Estacado
Oh, how the shining desert glowed, his eyes were burning as he rode
Was this a dream, a drunken one, or was he really riding on?
Was that a skull that gleamed and shone on the Llano Estacado?
“"Oh, hold on,”" to his horse he cried, “"ignore the devils in the sky
Bear up a little longer yet."” His cracked lips he longed to wet
His mouth was black with blood and sweat on the Llano Estacado
Crazy with love – Enamorado! Alone out on the Llano Estacado
Still, against his chest he held the water flask for her he'’d filled
He longed to drink, but well he knew that if he did her love he'’d lose
But still his raging thirst it grew on the Llano Estacado
His horse went down, he wandered on, dizzy, blinded, and alone
And you out there with watery eyes, think how it would feel to die
Beneath that cruel, uncloudy sky on the Llano Estacado
At last he stumbled, then he fell, his race was run he knew full well
And raising to his lips the flask, his face a blistered, painful mass
Drank to her, no more could she ask of the Llano Estacado
Crazy with love – Enamorado! Alone out on the Llano Estacado
That night at the presidio beneath the torchlight’s' wavy glow
She danced and never thought of him, the victim of a woman’'s whim
Lying with that deathlike grin on the Llano Estacado
Crazy with love – Enamorado! He died out on the Llano Estacado
Crazy with love – Enamorado! Alone out on the Llano Estacado