Border Town

Carmelita was a street angel but she kept her halo hid
 Never learned to read or write so well, she was just a farmer's kid
 She took communion at the age of twelve, she wore a cross of wood
 She heard the clanging of the mission bell
 And she vowed that she'd be good
 But the world goes round and it's hard enough to stand your ground
 There's always someone tryin' to keep you down in a border town
 Mamacita said you can't go down, stay away from the white man's world
 She drew the line at the edge of town for her little, dark-haired girl
 But Carmelita she had other plans and her life had just begun
 She ran away with a black-eyed man and he left her with a black-eyed son
 But the world goes round and it's hard enough to stand your ground
 There's always someone tryin' to keep you down in a border town
 Carmelita, now she's settlin' down, she's not so free and wild
 She rides a bus, all the way across town to love somebody else's child
 Shows up each morning, right on time and at six o'clock, she's gone
 She keeps her distance and she toes the line
 'Cause she knows where it's been drawn
 But the world goes round and it's hard enough to stand your ground
 There's always someone tryin' to keep you down in a border town