"Song Of The Border" गीत

The devil, we're told, in Hell was chained,
And a thousand years there he remained;
He never complained nor did he groan,
But determined to start a Hell of his own,
Where he could torment the souls of men
Without being chained in a prison pen;
So he asked the Lord if he had on hand
Anything left when He made the land.
The Lord said, "Yes, I had plenty on hand,
But I left it down on the Rio Grande;
The fact is, old boy, the stuff is so poor
I don't think you could use it in Hell any more.
" But the devil went down to look at the truck
And said if it came as a gift he was stuck;
For after examining it carefully and well
He concluded the place was too dry for Hell.

So in order to get it off his hands,
The Lord promised the devil to water the lands,
For he had some water, or rather the dregs,
A regular cathartic that smelled like bad eggs;
Hence the deal was closed and deed was given,
And the Lord went back to His home in Heaven;
And the devil then said, "I've all that is needed
To make a good Hell," and hence he succeeded.
He began to put thorns on all of the trees
And mixed up the sand with millions of fleas,
And scattered tarantulas along all the roads-
Put thorns on the cactus and horns on the toads;
He lengthened the horns of the Texas steers,
And put an addition on the rabbits' ears,
He put a little devil in the Broncho,
And poisoned the feet of the centipede.
The rattlesnake bites you, the scorpion stings,
The mosquitoes delight you with buzzing wings;
The sand-burrs prevail and so do the ants,
And those who sit down need half-soles on their pants.
The devil then said that throughout the land
He'd managed to keep up the devil's own brand,
And all would be mavericks unless they bore
The marks of scratches and bites and thorns by the score.
The heat in the summer is one hundred and ten,
Too hot for the devil and too hot for men;
The wild boar roams through the wild chaparral,
It's a hell of a place he has for a hell;
The red pepper grows on the bank of the brook,
The Mexicans use it in all that they cook.
Just dine with a Greaser and then you'll shout,
"I've hell on the inside as well as without."