ROSA RIO
By Cindy Walker
(Recorded 21 December 1963)

CHORUS:

My heart is in Rosa Rio, under the Argentine skies;
There with a beautiful lady, with the dark and sparkling eyes...
My heart is in Rosa Rio, yo sentimente, aye-aye -
There with a beautiful lady, that I'll love the day that I die...

Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye!

Her parents were rich estancieros, and I was just one of the hands,
who herded their ten thousand cattle on their ten thousand acres of land.
But I was a very poor cowboy, and we lived in worlds far apart:
So, how could I tell her I loved her? Or speak of the love in my heart?

The lady I loved never loved me; the lady I loved never knew -
The day that she married another, a poor cowboy's heart broke in two.
And I know that she'll never miss me, or notice that I'm even gone -
The cowboy who saddled her pony, now rides through the dark night, alone...

(Repeat Chorus)

Estancieros means "land owner/rancher."

Submitted by Leon Hart and James Scott.

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