Quiero Decir Gracias à Mateo

from Bowling Green by Alice Gerrard & Mike Seeger

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©words & music by Alice Gerrard, Agate Hill Publishing, BMI
Recorded by Mike Seeger at home in Garrett Park, Md 1980

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I was just a little skinny girl out California way
Turned up my nose at baby dolls, play house and fancy clothes
All I wanted in the whole world was to ride the western range
And to count myself a friend to Mateo

Oh he was a cowboy come up from Mexico
I never asked him how or why he came
But the days I spent there by his side were the happiest days of all
Y quiero decir gracias á Mateo

So early in the morning we’d saddle up and ride
Across the summer brown fields and California hills
And he showed me how to walk that horse and how to make him fly
He never said ‘you can’t’ he just showed me how to try

So I’m a-settin here a thinking on all the things I’d like to say
About my friend who’s gone now like the fields where we rode
No, I don’t know where he went to, but if he should hear my song
Well, I hope he’ll stop and smile as he rides on.

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from Bowling Green, released January 1, 2008
Alice-vocal, 2d guitar
Mike-lead guitar

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Alice Gerrard Durham, North Carolina

A singer and songwriter, Alice’s recordings with Hazel Dickens during the 1960s and ’70s influenced a generation of women musicians from Laurie Lewis to the Judds. Nominated for a Grammy in 2015, she was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Assoc. Hall of Fame in 2017. A documentary film about Alice, "You Gave Me a Song" premiered at the Full Frame Independent Film Festival in 2019. ... more

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