Johnny Rodriguez - Down On The Rio Grande

Johnny Rodriguez performs "Down On The Rio Grande"on Pop Goes The Country 1979.

Juan Raul Davis "Johnny" Rodriguez.He is a Latin American country music singer, infusing his music with Latin sounds, and even singing verses of songs in Spanish.

In the 1970s and 1980s, he was one of country music's most successful male artists, recording a string of hit songs, such as "You Always Come Back to Hurting Me," "Desperado," "Down on the Rio Grande" and "Foolin'." He has recorded six No. 1 country hits in his career.

Johnny Rodriguez Down On The Rio Grande Lyrics

 

I remember the palm trees swaying

Cross the river the sweet music playing

Down on the Rio Grande

 

Out on the levee with the full moon above me

A Mexican lady, Lord how she loved me

Down on the Rio Grande

 

Laugh and singing in the warm night air

Loving that woman with the raven hair

We were down on the Rio Grande

 

Strolling with my lover hand and hand

Lord I'd give anything to be

Down on the Rio Grande

 

Endless highways and wide-open spaces

Children smile with their sun burned faces

Down on the Rio Grande

 

All the love that my lady was giving

Was the sweetest part of living

Down on the Rio Grande

 

And if these memories could take me there

I'd be loving my woman with the raven hair

I'd be down on the Rio Grande