Escrita por Paul Siebel, foi gravada entre 1978 e 1980, e lançada em 4 de fevereiro de 1981 no disco Evangeline, o oitavo disco de Emmylou Harris. Foi produzida por Brian Ahern. Foi gravada em dueto com Waylon Jennings.
A letra:
Those other
years, the dusty years
We drove the big hers through
I tried
to forget the miles we rode
And Spanish Johnny too
He'd sit
beside a water ditch when all this herd was in
And he'd never
harm a child but sing to his mandolin
The old talk, the old ways, and the
dealin' of our game
But Spanish Johnny never spoke, but sing a
song of Spain
And his talk with men was vicious talk
When he
was drunk on gin
Ah, but those were golden things he said to his
mandolin
We had to stand, we tried to judge, we
had to stop him then
For the hand so gentle to a child had killed
so many men
He died a hard death long ago before the road come in
And the night before he swung he sung to his mandolin
Well, we carried him out in the mornin'
sun
A man that done no good
And we lowered him down in the
cold clay
Stuck in a cross of wood
And a letter we wrote to
his kinfolk
To tell them where he'd been
And we shipped it
out to Mexico, along with his mandolin
A versão de Emmylou Harris com Waylon Jennings:
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