A Border Romance - Riders In The Sky

She was a nobleman’s daughter

He was a dirt-poor cowhand

On the Mexican boarder

By the old Rio Grande

How he courted and won her

No one ever knew

But they fled in the night

By the quarter-moon's light

When he asked for her hand

They fled from her family

And their hot angry guns

They fled through the desert

The two hunted ones

They fled to a future

That neither could see

But their young love was strong

And it carried them on

To their destiny

They fled toward the north star

Through cactus and sand

They fled through the desert

And the empty badlands

It was love that compelled them

To run in the night

Through rivers and streams

Mirages like dreams

To a far distant land

They rode on for ages

Through the hot barren waste

Looking over their shoulders

For those who gave chase

They forted wild waters

In the dark of the night

Where the stars in their eyes

Mirrored stars in the skies

As they rode to the light

In the hills of Montana

Where the broad rivers flow

In a snug little cabin

Quite a few years ago

My Grandma and Grandpa

Holding hands by the fire

Told of danger and chance

Of a border romance

And the love that still burns