Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads · John A. Lomax (collector)

Chapter 107: Way Down in Mexico

O boys, we're goin' far to-night, Yeo-ho, yeo-ho! We'll take the greasers now in hand And drive 'em in the Rio Grande, Way down in Mexico.

We'll hang old Santa Anna soon, Yeo-ho, yeo-ho! And all the greaser soldiers, too, To the chune of Yankee Doodle Doo, Way down in Mexico.

We'll scatter 'em like flocks of sheep, Yeo-ho, yeo-ho! We'll mow 'em down with rifle ball And plant our flag right on their wall, Way down in Mexico.

Old Rough and Ready, he's a trump, Yeo-ho, yeo-ho! He'll wipe old Santa Anna out And put the greasers all to rout, Way down in Mexico.

Then we'll march back by and by, Yeo-ho, yeo-ho! And kiss the gals we left to home And never more we'll go and roam, Way down in Mexico.