Clear Isabel

Isabel and her brown skin shined like a sapphire in the summer sun
 The pride and joy of a Mexican lawman who lived by the gun
 He got cross ways with the cartel, they shot down his only son Jose
 So in fear of his daughter's life he packed their bags
 And late one night she heard him say
 "I hear the grass is greener just beyond that Laredo border line
 They say freedom is much sweeter than sweet blood, red sangria wine
 South Texas looks like heaven when you're down here in this living hell
 So come on let's cross that Rio, the coast is clear Isabel
 The coast is clear Isabel"
 They came across our homestead, tired and hungry, cold and moving slow
 We had fence to build a warm place to stay and they had nowhere to go
 So I worked cattle with her father, we were stretching wire and driving post all day
 While Isabel worked with my mother and late at night I held her tight
 She'd take my breath away
 I hear the grass is greener just beyond that Laredo border line
 They say freedom is much sweeter than sweet blood, red sangria wine
 South Texas looks like heaven when you're down here in this living hell
 So come on let's cross that Rio, the coast is clear Isabel
 The coast is clear Isabel
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 The sheriff came across her father, they treated him like an outlaw on the run
 
 And Isabel now wears my diamond and that little boy she holds is my son
 We got a green card for her father Mariano but it came two years too late
 We got word that he'd been gunned down in a border town
 Shot in the back, the last thing they heard him say
 "I hear the grass is greener just beyond that Laredo border line
 And they say that freedom is much sweeter than sweet blood, red sangria wine
 South Texas looks like heaven when you're down here in this living hell
 So come on let's cross that Rio, the coast is clear Isabel"
 The coast is clear Isabel
 The coast is clear Isabel
 Clear Isabel
 Clear Isabel