Were they pink elephants by chance?
No, we haven’t become the Mexican afflilate of Animal Planet this week! In honor of the U.S. elections, we’re covering elephants and donkeys here at the Mex Files!
The late Ann Richards said Texas was the kind of place where we don’t hide our crazy people in the attic… we give them the best seat in the parlor. Texans are proud of their crazy people (take a look at the Republic of Texas’ founding fathers some time!) and it’s a little embarrasing to get a foreign import (from, as Juanita would say, “one of them foreign states up north”) who out-crazies the natives.
Sara Inés Calderón of the Brownsville Herald had the happy experience of stumbling on just such a treasure. As I wrote yesterday, she’s the one who broke the story of the elephant invasion across the Rio Grande. This afternoon — for perfectly legimate reasons (I’m contracted to do 1500 words on the effects of border security measures on my stretch of the river) — I called Calderón. Of course I had to congratulate her on finding such a treasure, but what’s more important, is she’s found the story is even nuttier than we thought.
October 11, 2006 — Reports of an elephant crossing the river or people trying to smuggle an elephant across were rampant Tuesday while an elaborate political stunt was taking shape near the mouth of the Rio Grande.It was a while later that the stunt, which was a photo shoot, was abruptly met by federal agents.“The elephant never made landfall into Mexico, but I tell you something, he could have made 15 laps back and forth, but no one showed up,” said Raj Peter Bhakta, a former star on the NBC show “The Apprentice,” who also is a Republican candidate for the 13th District U.S. House of Representatives seat in Eastern Pennsylvania.
Bhakta decided to see if he could get an elephant accompanied by a six-piece mariachi band across the river.
According to his Web site, he is in favor of “sensible immigration reform” and supports a border fence, local law enforcement assistance with immigration laws and the use of the National Guard troops to help the U.S. Border Patrol.
“To my surprise, the band played on, the elephants splashed away, and nobody showed up,” Bhakta said of the stunt. “I’m astounded.”
The elephants came from Shrine Circuses, said James Plunkett, who produces the circus.
…Plunkett said he and his crew were hired for a “photo shoot” and entered the Boca Chica beach area without any notice from the Border Patrol. However, when it became clear that the elephants were in a quarantined area, the Border Patrol alerted the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the elephants had to be detained.
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[Bhakta] said he was “staggered” by what happened on Tuesday and was planning on sharing the story with his potential constituents.“If I can get an elephant led by a mariachi band into this country, I think Osama bin Laden could get across with all the weapons of mass destruction he could get into this country,” Bhakta said.
The mariachi band was not immediately available for comment.
The Philadelphia-area congress-wannabe (it’s a safe-seat Democratic district) has been having to share all kinds of things with his constituents… like two drunk driving convictions he somehow neglected to mention, and producing inaccurate campaign literature.
OK, it wasn’t quite relevant to what I’m doing on security in the Big Bend, but I was fascinated by Raj’s assertion that Osama bin Ladin could have crossed the border… especially since I telephoned him (215-628-4005) and he claimed the elephants had never been in Mexico. Calderón notes that the river isn’t very wide — or very deep — at Browsnville-Matamoros, and elephants are very wide. They may have been IN Mexico… illegally, as has happened before, much to the consternation of the U.S. Fish and Wildelife Service. Not to mention animal rights people, and even anti-immigration groups like “Ranch Rescue” which tell the story of Benny, smuggled into Mexico from Texas back in 2001 — resulting in a customs inspectors on both sides of the border losing their jobs.
And, no word on whether the mariachis were U.S. citizens… now that would be a good scandal! [The Brownsville Herald October 12 editorial mentions that the folks involved in this stunt ran from the “tick watchers” who nabbed ’em, making it a definite maybe]
So, the elephants were never in Mexico, but apparently Raj was.
…at least one of them was taken in as an undocumented immigrant. Bhakta, who was born in India, is a legal U.S. resident but didn’t have his papers. Customs and Border Protection officials reportedly detained him for four hours before proof of legal U.S. residency could be ascertained.
Says Raj on immigration: (http://www.rajforcongress.com/)
I am a first generation American. My father was born in India and my mother was born in Ireland. We would not be the country we are today had immigrants not paved the way. We do, however, need sensible immigration reform. I support additional funding for border enforcement as well as efforts to attract the best and the brightest from around the world.
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The best and brightest… mariachi players? Elephant handlers? P.R. flacks?
They Got it Right the First Time….
I’m aware of the risk of putting up another animal article and having this site turned in the cyber version of the Animal Planet, but….
Small Mexican farmers are finding out that in order to compete, they need to bring back the mule. Tractors aren’t doing the job on all types of farmland.Exactly what is a mule? They are the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. That makes them a hybrid. Except in rare cases, mules (males and females) are sterile and cannot reproduce themselves…. donkeys have 62 chromosomes and and horses have 64. Their offspring end up with 63 chromosomes and therefore cannot be divided evenly.
Mules are thought to be stronger and smarter than donkeys and are somewhat easier to work with. People in third world countries around the world have used them to do the plowing and transporting needed on farms.
When farmers could afford, they’ve been upgrading by purchasing John Deere tractors and replacing their mules, altogether. The problem is that these tractors don’t work well on steep inclines and the cost of gas has risen so much that they aren’t cost effective.
Sara Miller Llana reports in: http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1011/p07s02-woam.html that project leader, Leonel Gonzales Jauregui, wants a mule breeding center with donkeys from the U.S. The center is located near Tlajomulco, Mexico.“The Precious One”, a male donkey, was donated to the Cofradia Ranch, part of the University of Guadalajara, six months ago. Leonel Gonzalez Jáuregui, executive director of the research ranch, says he wants to create a breeding center that will turn out sturdy mules to help local producers work their fields and remain competitive.
In 2005, six Kentucky Jacks were brought in because they are taller and stronger than their Mexican counterparts. “These are work animals, the American ones,” says Sepulveda. “Not like the Mexican ones.”
There are those here who view the effort to revive the donkey population as regressive. “They see it as going backward,” admits Mr. Patrick Fenton, director of the Kentucky Agricultural and Commercial Trade Office. . “But a burro can be technology.”
The mayor-elect of Tlajomulco, Antonio Tatengo, says donkeys could help the 10 percent of landowners in his municipality with properties too small to necessitate tractors. He is quick to add that most would prefer them, though, over donkeys. “We are very modernized here,” says Mr. Tatengo.
It seems that modern technology isn’t always the best technology. The “Beast of Burden” is making a comeback!
Global warming on the Rio Grande?
Last week it was a crocodile (a comedian said you can expect Mexican leather dealers on the streets of Laredo any day now) .. now it’s:
Elephants storm the Rio Grande
By Sara Inés Calderón
Three elephants were reportedly splashing in the Rio Grande today near Boca Chica beach, prompting reports that someone was crossing into the United States from Mexico on an elephant.
The elephants were part of a photo shoot, according to James Plunkett who was tending to the elephants.
On their way back to Brownsville from the shoot, the trainers and the elephants were detained at the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint on Highway 4. The elephants were transported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture office on FM 511 where the animals were quarantined, officials said.
Oaxaca… again
One of the more reliable English-language sources on Oaxaca is Ana-Maria Salazar Slack, who runs the Mexican news blog “Mexico Today.”
Her summation of the situation as it stands now is hopeful:
Conclusion: What seemed to an irreversible use of force to regain control of the City of Oaxaca last week, today it appears that there may be a different solution… One of the huge issue is when will the teachers return to the classrooms. It has been more then five months that they have been on strike…
On the Lonely Planet’s “Thorn Tree Mexico Message Board”, South African Oaxaca resident “gbbackpack” posted this:
Overland bus transport has been nearly back to normal for weeks now. Day-time Oaxaca is basically calm, though people (and taxis) simply no longer leave much after 10 or 11pm (midnight buses are also the only ones still cancelled). This is not normal for Oaxaca at all, but maybe exactly because it used to be such a safe place – that it is actually surviving this lack of governance in a strange way.
This week probably remains crucial: Predictions are hard right now, but watch … news reports for updates (but keep in mind who the information source is).
That last comment — in parenthesis — is probably the wisest thing I’ve seen about the whole situation.
Most of the anti-APPO “analysis” I’ve seen comes from either big business executives, or corporate sources. Consciously or not, they are going to be biased towards the way things SHOULD work… not the way they are working. What’s ironic is that we’re seeing a libertarian pro-democracy uprising going pretty smoothly… much to the chagrin of those who normally pay lip service to “self-reliance” and “do-it-yourselfism”.
Unfortunately, a lot of the pro-APPO reportage is also biased… I’m annoyed with U.S.-based analysis that somehow conflate a larger-than-usual, but not unheard of push to out a Latin American crook with U.S. politics, the Bush agenda and the 2000 Presidential vote count in Florida. None of which have anything to do with a mismanged state economy or a teachers’ strike. And, even though Mexicans like to refer to Karl Marx, they aren’t ones for following the rule book — unlike European revolutionaries, Mexican history is written after the book comes out. Nobody wrote a Mein Kampf or Communist Manifesto for the 1910-20 Revolution. They still managed to have one.
Having said all that… from the CORPORATE MEDIA (or, “MSM” as the right-wing likes to call it these days), this from the Mexico City News (El Universal’s English edition, published in cooperation with the Miami Herald). What I noted was that top business leaders are now involved… making this look all the more traditionally Mexican, where crises are resolved through negotiation and compromise, as was the electorial crisis of 1988:
…In a press conference late Monday, Interior Secretary Carlos Abascal, who has headed the negotiations with the local chapter of the teachers union and the Oaxaca People´s Popular Assembly (APPO), said a tentative agreement had been reached over the return of law enforcement to Oaxaca City.
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Abascal said the crisis needed an immediate solution and called for the teachers to return to classes. School has been suspended during the unrest, affecting over a million Oaxacan children.… APPO and the teachers reportedly put a three-page document on the table that calls for the establishment of a dialogue process in Oaxaca itself that would include a broad representation of the state´s citizens. The talks would start October 12.
The secretariat, meanwhile, has offered full back pay to the dissident teachers, according to media reports. It has also said that an investigation was under way involving Oaxaca Governor Ulises Ruiz. The specifics of the investigation was unclear, but a document signed by Abascal indicated that previous Oaxaca state administrations were also being investigated.
The ouster of Ruiz is the strikers´ top demand.
… The only major party that has backed the idea of Ruiz´s removal or resignation is the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD). On Monday, the PRD said it could accept that Ruiz´s replacement be from his own party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
…On Tuesday, a Senate committee will decide if it will continue proceedings that can legally remove Ruiz from office on the grounds of inability to govern. …Also on Monday, a diverse new citizens group called the National Democratic Dialogue called on authorities to avoid using any repressive means to deal with the ongoing unrest in the southern state.
The group, which includes National Employers Confederation president Alberto Núñez Esteva and renowned pro-democracy activist and Colegio de México social scientist Sergio Aguayo, urged a political settlement to the crisis.
“Efforts at dialogue must have priority,” urged the group in a statement, “especially those that involve the participation of civic society and the construction of long-term solutions.”
Calling long distance….
Let’s cross our fingers that they don’t get a busy signal.CID=2 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?5660 is reporting that “Teotihuacan will be the launch pad for an attempt to communicate with extraterrestrial life”.
“In addition to the data being shot into space, some chosen submissions will also be projected onto the side of the 216-foot-tall pyramid for spectators and other Web surfers to view via a real-time, global Web broadcast, according to Reuters”
Interested parties from around the world will have an opportunity to contribute text, images, video and sounds that reflect human nature to be included in the message which will be sent off on October 25, 2006. Submissions may be submitted starting today.
Yahoo’s “Time Capsule” project will digitize and beam the messages up into space with a laser.
” We have this incredible ancient site and from that site we can project contemporary content,” Srinija Srinivasan Yahoo’s editor in chief, told Reuters. “What is new is the ability to capture this information in such scale.”
Maybe we should submit an image of the newly funded “anti-immigration” fence which is to be built along the U.S./Mexican border. It could send the message to extraterestrial aliens that the U.S. doesn’t take a liking to aliens coming up from the south. That way, if any Martians recieve the Time Capsule messages, they(ET aliens) can plan on entering the U.S. from its northern border.
Ain’t that a nice “How do you do“? I wonder if the INS captures any ET aliens wandering around Roswell, N.M. (as a result of the Time Capsule experiment)….. will they foot the bill to send them home, too….like they do the Mexican illegals???
Submit your own ideas to:http://timecapsule.yahoo.com/capsule.php
Who’s invading who? Or … deja-vu all over again
¡Para Justicia y Libertad! — with devastating logic on their side — concludes NAFTA is designed to erase our national borders, as the right-wingers claim … and it’s not exactly a new idea.
…a conquest does not have to be done militarily. Three years before NAFTA took effect, José Luis Calva of the National University of Mexico, predicted,
“If the governments and legislatures of the three countries agree to liberalize trade in agricultural goods, U.S. citizens should be prepared to receive some 15 million Mexican migrants. The Border Patrol will be unable to detain them, and even a new iron curtain, rising on the border at a moment when the Cold War has given way to economic warfare among nations, will buckle under the weight of millions of Mexicans thrown off their lands by free trade.”
The essence of the American empire is not territorial control but wresting of economic control from another country and dominating that nation economically. How long will this “peaceful conquest” of Mexico continue to go unnoticed?
Get the fire department…
I’m married to one of these guys who loves to downplay the “heat” in his cooking. He’ll spend a couple of hours cooking up some green chili in the kitchen and he’ll offer me a taste. Inevitably, I’ll ask him if it’s too hot for my liking.
He comes back with something like, “Oh no, honey, I made it just the way you like it.” He has no tastebuds left because he’s burned them off. He’s the type who puts habeneros in his cereal. I like some spice, but I don’t get any pleasure out of a 30 min. afterburn on my tongue or from wiping beads of perspiration from my forehead.
Apparently, there was a gathering of kindred spirits (to my hubby) who voluntarily put themselves to the ultimate “test” in Dallas last weekend. And I bet I could guess which room in their house saw a lot of action the following two days.
DALLAS (AP)- A 62-year-old retired accountant from Nevada swallowed 247 peppers in eight minutes to win the Jalapeno Eating World Championship at the State Fair of Texas.
Richard LeFevre won $2,000 for prevailing in Sunday’s contest, which was sponsored by the International Federation of Competitive Eating.
“I love to eat, and I love to compete, so the two go pretty well together,” said LeFevre, the world’s eighth-ranked eater according to the federation.
LeFevre, who has also won the fair’s World Corny Dog Eating Contest three times, said his winning strategy was to mix three or four peppers in his mouth with a swig of milk before swallowing.
LeFevre was one of four professional eaters who took the top four places in the competition.
Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas said she had never eaten a jalapeno before the contest. Ranked third in the world by the federation, she downed 239 peppers to take second place and $1,000 in prize money.
Christopher Huang, of Arlington, entered the competition even though he doesn’t normally eat spicy foods.
“I eat mild salsa,” Huang said. “But there’s nothing like putting yourself through a lot of pain for no reason.”
The 26-year-old required several minutes of recovery time after eating 53 jalapenos.
“I cant feel my face,” he said when he was able to speak again. http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5514385&nav=1TjD
Mojados…
Two tidbits from along the Rio Grande…
Fishermen capture 7.5-foot croc in Rio Grande
Associated Press
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — Mexican fishermen captured a 7.5-foot-long crocodile in the Rio Grande, the river that divides Mexico and the United States, and turned the animal over to a local animal shelter, authorities reported today.
The animal was caught on a fisherman’s line on Saturday in a sparsely populated stretch of the river on the outskirts of Nuevo Laredo, across from Laredo, Texas
The crocodile weighed about 130 pounds and appeared to be in good condition, said Jose Moreno Araiza, a commander of the Nuevo Laredo fire department, where the fishermen first brought the animal in the back of a pickup truck.
It was then turned over to the local Animal Protection Society, whose president, Gina Ferrara, said the croc would be kept for the time being in improvised holding area complete with a pool of water. Federal environmental officials were informed of the capture, and will eventually decide what is to be done with the animal.
Crocodiles do not normally inhabit the Rio Grande, and authorities believe it may have been brought to the area as a pet and then released into the river by its owner.
Undocumented migrants frequently swim or ride inner tubes across the Rio Grande to reach the United States.
Nuevo Laredo Environmental Department biologist Irvin Donath Paredes said the croc appeared to be young and in good physical condition.“We’ll have to see what species it is, but it’s young, three or four years old, judging by the texture of its skin and the size of its head,” said Donath Paredes.
CROCS? My neighbor is a misplaced crocodile specialist (he did his dissertation in Tabasco, Belize and Thailand), who moved here to teach biology at Sul Ross, after a stint at an Indian College in South Dakota. He’s pumped! And, yeah, it was a croc, not an alligator, though I wouldn’t want to get close enough to tell the difference.
And… Jesse Bogan of the San Antonio Express-News managed to find two people who actually support the Great Wall of Texas.
In Laredo, Ray Segura, owner of Segura Fence Co., said he’s eager to compete for government contracts to help build the fence. He already has teamed up with a San Antonio company to submit a bid.
“There’s going to be a lot of contracts, there’s going to be a lot of bidding, there’s going to be a lot of action,” Segura said.
He said that based on his experience, the fence probably would be built on an easement along the river that the government owns and runs along the entire border, usually 30 to 50 feet wide.
He estimated it would take about two to three months per mile of construction for a thick wire fence with holes too small to fit a boot in; twice as long if it is a double fence, as Congress wants.
Also standing to gain was a shirtless man with a tattoo of a bat on his chest.
He was drinking beer last week with two colleagues along the river where smugglers commonly bring immigrants in rafts from the Mexican town of Miguel Alemán to the Texas town of Roma.
The self-described “patero,” or smuggler, sat among trash, just beyond the reach of flies buzzing around a dead animal.
“We aren’t politicians, we are ruffians. It’s going to be more difficult (to cross), but it’s going to cost more money,” said the man, who appeared to be about 40 and declined to give his name.
“If they want to spend the money on the wall,” he said with the flick of a hand, “then spend it.”
El Grito!
This last month we all heard and thrilled at the “Grito”. The celebratory Presidential proclamation made on the 16th of September, Independence Day. This series of Viva Mexico! that stirs the souls and hearts of the thousands packed into the Zocalo. But here I would like to pay homage to that more humble grito. This grito is not political nor is it making a nationalistic statement for the TV cameras. It’s the Grito of the individual’s depth of joy, that primal scream that rises from the child within all of us. Although unfortunately many people have stifled that child and when that happens the Grito dissolves into a whimpering murmur accompanied by a sheepish grin and, maybe, even embarrassment.
This grito accompanies the guitar and the trumpet at the wedding dance, aaaayyiiii! It bursts out from the dance floor at the Saturday night pachanga, AAaaYYiiii! It erupts when your team scores the winning goal, AAAHUAAYYYIIII! This grito is as humble as the family barbeque and the corner cantina, AAaaayYYyiiiII! It announces the ecstasy and the exaltation of that moment of sheer delight. It’s the scream that says we’re alive and loving it. This is not the primal scream of fear and pain, but the sound of indulgence with mirth and pleasure.
The exhilaration generated by el grito spreads throughout the crowd, the cantina, the dance hall, the arena; it burrows into the souls of all present. It does not discriminate: young and old, man and woman, some rich and many poor. It says good-by to hard days and promises tomorrows lottery wins; it pledges your woman a good night and tells your competition to step down.
El GRITO! QUE VIVA EL GRITO!
Looking for the Biggest Burp…..
We’ve all heard about the “Big Bang” theory…. but have you heard about the “Big Burp”?
Leave it to Chiapas to become the center of yet another war….. the war between Coke Cola and Pepsi. A recent article in: http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2840/ by Beverly Bell tells us all about the ‘perfect storm’ taking place in the state of Chiapas right now. Politics, religion and commerce have taken up their positions and without the aid of “menthos”, the gases are exploding.
“Thousands of candles flicker in the dim chamber. The air is thick with the smoke from copal incense. On the altar, men in black wool tunics and white knee-length pants play solemn music on drums and gourds. Below them, a score of Tzotzil Indians chant in small circles on the pine needle-covered floor. In the center of each circle are candles, eggs, copal and pox—fermented corn mash—in an old glass container, stopped with a corn cob. And next to the pox is a half-liter bottle of Coca-Cola or Pepsi.
In the 484-year-old Church of St. John the Baptist, in Chamula, a town of 60,000 in Chiapas, Mexico, those bottles indicate the intersection of religion, politics, water and consumer markets.
In the United States, Coke and Pepsi vie for monopoly contracts with schools and universities. In Chiapas, the stakes in the soft drink war are as high as the purity of one’s soul.
Traveling through the cold highlands of the San Juan Chamula municipality any Saturday afternoon, one regularly encounters a scene resembling a battleground: dozens of bodies sprawled on the ground, arms and legs sometimes extending perilously into the road. At the epicenter of each of these scenes are plastic tables and chairs in front of a diminutive wooden store. There, men, women and children who are either on their way to collapse, or who have resuscitated themselves and are back for more, sit drinking pox, which means “mad dog” in Tzotzil. Along with pox, they swig Coke or Pepsi, depending on whose store they patronize; each store sells only one brand.
Like fireworks and copal, pox is a sacrament in a local religion that blends Catholicis
m with elements of native tradition. It is a sacred drink that cleanses the soul; the more pox one drinks, the greater the purification. Over the past several decades the caciques—local elites who wield economic and political power and control the soft drink concession—have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with Coke or Pepsi, depending on who is doing the proselytizing. They say the cola induces burping, which releases evil from the soul.
The caciques and their affiliated drink companies do a booming business—nevermind that the beverages sell for 50 U.S. cents a can, exactly the average daily income. Purchasing a soda often means not purchasing food, and Chiapas has one of the highest rates of both malnutrition and Coke consumption in Mexico. ”
For the rest of this interesting story, click on the link (above) and find out how Coke Cola/Pepsi play into the politics and economy of Chiapas. It’s an excellent eye-opening article about the inner workings of commerce and power in Mexico!!!
Playboys of the Southwestern World
We actually have three radio stations in Alpine, but the college station (that was being run by profs over the summer, and was heavy on Led Zepplin, Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson) doesn’t have much of a broadcast range and fades in and out around the mountain roads. The second station is trying to save me, and bring me to Jesus through really bad music. The other choice has baseball, local news and BOTH kinds of music — Country and Western.
It also introduced me to a guy I’d never heard of, Blake Shelton… who has a good version of this classic on Mexican tourism… and yeah, I know. But I couldn’t find any other pictures of two cowboys with an old truck. Besides, who knows?
(Neal Coty/Randy VanWarmer, ©2003)
This is a song
About best friends
John Roy
Was a boy I knew
Since he was three
And I was two
Grew up two little houses
Down from me
The only two bad apples
On our family tree
Kind of ripened and rotted
In our puberty
Two kindred spirits bound by destiny
Well now I was smart
But I lacked ambition
Johnny was wild
With no inhibition
Was about like mixin
Fire and gasoline
(And he’d say)
Hey Romeo
Let’s go down to Mexico
Chase senoritas
Drink ourselves silly
Show them Mexican girls
A couple of real hillbillies
Got a pocket full of cash
And that old Ford truck
A fuzzy cat hangin
From the mirror for luck
Said don’t you know
All those little
Brown-eyed girls
Want playboys of the southwestern world
Long around
Our eighteenth year
We found two plane tickets
The hell out of here
Got scholarships
To some small town
School in Texas
Learned to drink Sangria
Til the dawns early light
Eat eggs Ranchero
And throw up all night
And tell those daddy’s girls
We were majoring in a rodeo
Ah but my
Favorite memory
At school that fall
Was the night John Roy
Came runnin down the hall
Wearin nothin
But cowboy boots
And a big sombrero
(And he was yellin)
Hey Romeo
Let’s go down to Mexico
Chase senoritas
Drink ourselves silly
Show them Mexican girls
A couple of real hillbillies
Got a pocket full of cash
And that old Ford truck
A fuzzy cat hangin
From the mirror for luck
Said don’t you know
All those little
Brown-eyed girls
Want playboys of the southwestern world
And I said
We had a little
Change in plans
Like when Paul McCartney
Got busted in Japan
And I said
We got waylaid
When we laid foot
On Mexican soil
See the boarder guard
With the Fu Manchu mustache
Kind of stumbled on John’s
Pocket full of American cash
He said
Doin a little funny business
In Mexico Amigo
But all I could think about
Was savin my own tail
When he mentioned ten years
In a Mexican jail
So I pointed to John Roy and said
It’s all his now please let me go
Well it was your idea genius
I was just layin there in bed
When you said
Hey Romeo
Let’s go down to Mexico
Chase senoritas
Drink ourselves silly
Show them Mexican girls
A couple of real hillbillies
Got a pocket full of cash 
And that old Ford truck
A fuzzy cat hangin
From the mirror for luck
Said don’t you know
All those little
Brown-eyed girls
Want playboys of the southwestern world
Ah we’re still best friends
Temporary cell mates
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