New Mexican skies
Where the heat, it did blaze
Baked the small, meager village
Of Rio de Fe
Poor and modest, for sure
Were the people of town
Working soil they borrowed
From a criminal crown
Guillermo La Cumbre,
Was different it seems
His farm was his own
To his own tended means
Guillermo worked hard
But longed just to play
He lived to ride horses
At the end of the day
HIs favorite,
A pinto named El Corazon,
Was the fastest young horse
He'd ever sat on
Guillermo La Cumbre
Lived life as it's said
When life is worth living,
You're always ahead
Maria Martinez
Lived not far away
On a parcel of dirt
Where the harvest betrayed
Her father was poor
And his luck never followed
He owed debt to another
While his fortunes did wallow
The gorgeous brunette
Was Guillermo's true love
Sent, in his eyes,
From the heavens above
To marry Maria
Was Guillermo's one plan
To have many children
To guide with his hand
Maria loved him
As much as did he
To be his dear wife
She so longed to be
Guillermo La Cumbre
Lived life as it's said
When life is worth living,
You're always ahead
Hernandez Gigante
Was a murd'rous feared man
He owned Maria's family
With the deed to their land
Cruel and mean,
With a rattlesnake's charm
HIs favorite past time
Was causing nothing but harm.
Gigante loathed La Cumbre
Cuz his claim was his own
The one plot of earth
Not owed as a loan
Gigante did try
To force our man's luck
Stealing and threat'ning
And running amok.
Tho' on, one thing,
The two did agree
To have Maria's hand
Was their lifelong true need
Guillermo La Cumbre
Lived life as it's said
When life is worth living,
You're always ahead
Gigante, with the patience
He always had lacked
Forced his intent
Without any tact
"Marry me, Maria,
Or your fate will be sealed
You'll all be evicted
From your father's farmed field"
News spread through the village
At a dust devil's pace
That Hernandez was claiming
The Martinez place
The family did mourn
The pending loss of their land
Because Maria refused
Hernandez her hand
Helpless and lost
The father did beg
Don't pull from my family
Their only tent peg
Guillermo La Cumbre
Lived life as it's said
When life is worth living,
You're always ahead
When word reached Guillermo
The threat hit him hard
"Gigante's gone crazy.
He's going too far."
Guillermo decided
Out of desired love's need
To race El Corazon
Against Hernandez's deed
"To the winner, my colts
And the ground that I plow
'Gainst the Martinez plot
In a horse race, I vow"
Hernandez laughed loudly
And said to our hero
"I've got the quick horses;
You'll end up with zero"
"We'll set out at sunrise,
By those livery doors
Come nine in the morning,
Second place will be yours"
Guillermo La Cumbre
Lived life as it's said
When life is worth living,
You're always ahead
The morning came quickly
And Maria did plead
"Don't do it, Guillermo,
It's a foolish young deed"
"Don't worry, my dear,
The thing is but done
Your place will be yours
By the peak of the sun"
The race for the fields
It started on time
Colts bolted like bullets
From the pistol's sweet chime.
True to his word,
El Corazon won the race
Guillermo won hand'ly,
Never losing his pace
Gigante lagged badly
Seeing Guillermo afar
Hell bent for leather
Corazon was the star
Guillermo La Cumbre
Lived life as it's said
When life is worth living,
You're always ahead
Reaching the finish,
Guillermo yelled greatly,
"It seems there's a change
In the winds that come lately."
"The Martinez grange
Is theirs forever.
Gigante's brute menace
Should bother them never ."
Hernandez fumed
As he pulled to the end
"The race wasn't fair
He cheated, my friends."
But no one would listen
As Hernandez accused
HIs performance was wasted
And his ego was bruised
Gigante was flustered,
Enraged for his part
He shot young Guillermo
Straight through the heart
Guillermo spoke softly
As he lay nearly dead,
"When life is worth living,
You're always ahead"
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