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7 <title>Romance in Durango
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13 <h1 class=
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16 <p>Words and music Bob Dylan (and Jaques Levy)
<br />
17 Released on
<a class=
"recordlink" href=
"index.htm">Desire
</a> (
1976)and in live versions on
18 <a class=
"recordlink" href=
"../28_biograph/index.htm">Biograph
</a> (
1985) and
<a class=
"recordlink" href=
"../42_bs5/index.htm">Live
1975</a> (
2002)
<br />
19 Tabbed by Eyolf
Østrem
</p>
27 Hot chili peppers in the blistering sun
29 Dust on my face and my cape,
31 Me and Magdalena on the run
33 I think this time we shall escape.
36 Sold my guitar to the baker's son
37 For a few crumbs and a place to hide,
38 But I can get another one
39 And I'll play for Magdalena as we ride.
48 Soon the horse will take us to Durango.
52 Soon the desert will be gone
54 Soon you will be dancing the fandango.
58 Past the Aztec ruins and the ghosts of our people
59 Hoofbeats like castanets on stone.
60 At night I dream of bells in the village steeple
61 Then I see the bloody face of Ramon.
63 Was it me that shot him down in the cantina
64 Was it my hand that held the gun?
65 Come, let us fly, my Magdalena
66 The dogs are barking and what's done is done.
72 Soon the horse will take us to Durango.
74 Soon the desert will be gone
75 Soon you will be dancing the fandango.
79 At the corrida we'll sit in the shade
80 And watch the young torero stand alone.
81 We'll drink tequila where our grandfathers stayed
82 When they rode with Villa into Torre6n.
84 Then the padre will recite the prayers of old
85 In the little church this side of town.
86 I will wear new boots and an earring of gold
87 You'll shine with diamonds in your wedding gown.
89 The way is long but the end is near
90 Already the fiesta has begun.
91 The face of God will appear
92 With His serpent eyes of obsidian.
98 Soon the horse will take us to Durango.
100 Soon the desert will be gone
101 Soon you will be dancing the fandango.
105 Was that the thunder that I heard?
106 My head is vibrating, I feel a sharp pain.
107 Come sit by me, don't say a word
108 Oh, can it be that I am slain?
110 Quick, Magdalena, take my gun
111 Look up in the hills, that flash of light.
112 Aim well my little one
113 We may not make it through the night.
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117 No llores, mi querida
119 Soon the horse will take us to Durango.
121 Soon the desert will be gone
122 Soon you will be dancing the fandango.
127 <h2 class=
"songversion">Rolling Thunder Revue version
</h2>
133 Hot chili peppers in the blistering sun
135 Dust on my face and my cape,
137 Me and Magdalena on the run
139 I think this time we shall escape.
144 <pre class=
"refrain">
146 No llores, mi querida
150 Soon the horse will take us to Durango.
154 Soon the desert will be gone
156 Soon you will be dancing the fandango.