Wrote this song while I was living and working in the city and longing to get back to the country. That wish has now come true and here's the video to prove it. Artist: Morris P Rainville
Duration : 3 min 16 sec
The second half of their last song of the set (before the encore) at the Beachland Tavern in Cleveland, Ohio on Thursday, June 25, 2009, broken into two parts due to a battery issue. A track from their 2007 release, Buckle in the Bible Belt.
Duration : 0:1:47
The last song of their set (before the encore) at the Beachland Tavern in Cleveland on Thursday, June 25, 2009, was this track from their 2007 release, Buckle in the Bible Belt. Sadly, it’s broken into 2 parts because the batteries gave out on camera 2 and I had to switch back to camera 1. This is part 1.
Duration : 0:1:40
A track from their 2007 release, Buckle in the Bible Belt, performed at the Beachland Tavern in Cleveland, Ohio on Thursday, June 25, 2009.
Duration : 0:3:21
This track from their 2007 release, Buckle in the Bible Belt, was the first song of their set at the Beachland Tavern in Cleveland, Ohio on Thursday, June 25, 2009.
Duration : 0:3:18
Thanks to Cormac McCarthy and Joel and Ethan Coen. Never been to Del Rio, except for in my head. Thanks also to Lori H. for helping me to imagine how beautiful Texas is.
Del Rio shines in the hot moonlight
In the middle of summer on a Saturday night
Got a fifty dollar bill in my left hand
Spend it in one place, yes I can
Got a silver belt buckle and Gila boots
Got a monkey on my back I cant shake loose
Im standin in the gutter on Avenue T
Just Jesus, Mary, the Devil and me
You do what you got to do
Or you do without
Lifes cheap on the Rio Grande
Without a doubt
Beer and whiskey born and bred
No ‘count white trash better off dead
When the sheriff come, daddy ran out the back
Down the alley to the railroad tracks
He called from Alpine the very next day
I could tell from his voice he was gone to stay
Things got tougher, well I guess
Thats how it is round here, more or less
You do what you got to do
Or you do without
Lifes cheap on the Rio Grande
Without a doubt
Theres a 7-11 over on third
I walk in without a word
Pull out my daddys .45
Just doin what he taught me to do to survive
Del Rio shines in the hot moonlight
In the middle of summer on a Saturday night
Got $500 and blood on my hands
As the wind comes up across the Rio Grande
You do what you got to do
Or you do without
Lifes cheap on the Rio Grande
Without a doubt
Duration : 0:5:34
A 1983 hit for Conley, it went to number 1 on the country charts. We polished a lot of belt buckles with this one in the mid-eighties. The guitar is a 2006 Fender American Special Mahogany HSS Stratocaster 60th Anniversary Diamond Series. This guitar features a hum-bucker pickup in the bridge position which I am using in this video. Sounds a little like a Gibson Les Paul I think (without the weight).
Duration : 0:3:0