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170 Tamale Ridge by: Chuck Cusimano

These are the lyrics for “Tamale Ridge”

First Verse:

“Was down in Mexico, where. I used to go, when I fell in love.

A few years ago, when the moonlight glow, fell from up above.

She was a bashful girl, from a ranching world.

Her name was “Rosemarie”

I asked the daughter of a Desert rancher

to come back home with me.

Second Verse:

She said, “I hate to go, away from Mexico.

I will miss this land and the colts that play

in the Sun all day, on the desert sand”.

But, with a halfway smile, she said,

“I’ll try a while, with no guarantee.

To live a long way from my homeland

without my family.”

First Chorus:

I said, “The Sangre De Cristo Range,

has a name that may sound strange.

And the Pine trees touch the sky, where you would live.

And the colts and the children could play,

In the New Mexico Sun all day.

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