Me and the boy's we cinched up 
Our saddles and rode to 
Sonora last night 
Gun's hanging proud daring 
Out loud for any one 
Looking to fight 
Card cheats and rustlers would 
Run for their holes when 
The boys from the old broken O 
Rode up and reined on the street 
That they named 
Sonora's death row 
Mescal is free at Amanda's saloon 
For the boy's from 
The old broken O 
Saturday nights in the town of 
Sonora are the best in 
All Mexico 
They've got guitars and trumpets 
And sweet senoritas 
Who won't want to let you go 
You'd never believe such a gay 
Happy time on the street 
Called Sonora's death row 
Inside Amanda's we was a dancin' 
With all of Amanda's 
Gals 
I won some silver at seven card 
Stud so I was out doin' 
My pals 
But the whiskey and mescal 
Peso cigars drove me 
Outside for some air 
Somebody whispered 
Your life or your money 
I reached 
But my gun wasn't there 
I woke up face down in 
Amanda's back alley aware of the 
Fool I had been 
Rushed to my pony 
Grabbed my Winchester and entered 
Amanda's again 
Where I saw my partners 
Twirling my pistols and 
Throwing my money around 
Blinded by anger 
I jacked the lever and one of them 
Fell to the ground 
Amanda's got silent 
Like night in the desert my 
Friends stared in pure disbelief 
Amanda was kneeling 
Beside the dead cowboy plainly 
Expressing her grief 
And as I bowed my head 
A trembled shot through me my 
Six-gun was still at my side 
I felt my pockets 
There was my money 
I fell to my 
Knees and I cried 
A nightmare of mescal 
Is all that it was for no one had 
Robbed me at all 
I wish I was dreaming 
The sound of the gallows they're 
Testing just outside 
The wall 
The mescal's still free 
At Amanda's saloon for the 
Boy's from the old Broken O 
I'd give a ransom to drink 
There today and be free of 
Sonora's death row 
I'd give a ransom to drink 
There today and be free of 
Sonora's death row