Ave Maria Morales

A long time ago in the small border town
Of Nogalas
There lived a beautiful Mexican
Girl named Ava Maria Morales
Her dark hair would glisten and shine
When touched by the sun
And she loved a cowboy that told her he worked
ON a ranch just outside of Tucson
Diamonds he gave to her caused many
People to say
How could he give her such
Diamonds as these on thirty
A month cowboy pay
She paid no attention to what they said or
What they did
Cause she never doubted
He worked on a ranch
Out of Tucson, just like he said
Then to Nogalas, one mornin', came ridin' a stranger
He wore a badge on the front of his vest,
The new one in town was a Ranger
And he showed some pictures
Of outlaws and bandits he chased
And one of the pictures caused Ava Maria
To turn with fear on her face
Ava Maria
It's true what they said
Your cowboy's an outlaw
With a price on his head
The Ranger left town on the trail
Of the outlaws he hunted
Ava Maria prayed he'd never catch the cowboy she loved and she wanted
Cause deep in her heart she beleived that the Ranger was wrong
The outlaw just looked like
The cowboy that worked
On the ranch just outside of Tucson