Ahi Esta Mi Nina - Justin Townes Earle

Oh, mi Esmerelda, you’s a sight for sore eyes

I’m just off the bus from Clinton, they put me out on

I’m on my way home to see Mama now

Fancy meeting you along the way

Naw, don’t go, ain’t you got a minute for your old man?

Let me buy you something to eat

Just a cup of coffee from a bodega

I was hoping we might get a chance to speak

'Cause there’s so much that I want to say to you

So much of which would just do no good

Like I will never ask you to forgive me

'Cause Darling, I just don’t think that you should

'Cause you’re the only good I’ve ever done with my life

And I’ve never done right by you

Might feel as though I owe you an explanation

I think that you already know the truth

So I’ll just say I’m sorry

But I know it’s not as simple as that

I think you and I both know better

Than to think that we can do a thing about the past

So how 'bout that cup of coffee?

Give me a cigarette, I know you smoke

'Nuff about me, let’s hear about this boy that you’ve been seeing

Baby, I think you’d be amazed by what all I know

I know you look just like your mother

When you look at me that way

You know that look, it never worked for your mother

So what makes you think it’s gonna get you any place?

Ahí esta mi niña

You have such a pretty smile

Eres mi niña

My only child