Following the Brazos river Down to Mexico I am a wanted outlaw And I've got nowhere left to go I'm running from a bank job That I did in Ohio Well, lady luck and aces full Put me back out in the cold I spent the night in the mission Filled with hungry ghosts and stone Not far from the border In a town called San Anton' I woke up to a ruckus It chilled me to the bone And my pistols drew And bullets flew But I was all alone Crossing the Nueces River Westbound with the herd I'd signed up with a drover And I took him at his word Evening came on quiet My guilty heart was stirred To see the sun go sinkin' Past the point of no return Sold the cattle in Del Rio Collected all my pay And I stared across the Rio Grande And I wished that I could stay This side of the border Where they live the Texas way But I'll travel on A branded man In sorrow all my days