Terry Allen - Dialogue: The Characters (A Simple Story) lyrics

Juarez, the characters

Sailor, a Texas boy who had just
Returned from duty in the navy
In the Pacific is on leave in
The fort of San Diego

Spanish Alice mexican prostitute working
At bars in
Tijuana looking for ways into the USA

Jabbo juarez born Pachuco
Living in Los Angeles decides to go home by
Way of joyride up in the southern Colorado
Chick Blundy jabbo's LA girlfriend an
Enigma rockrider and occasionally
Jabbo himself

A simple story

Sailor meets Alice in a Tijuana bar they
Get drunk, fuck, cry to belief together
And get married
They cross the border and travel by car
Probably a Buick, from San Diego to Cortez
Colarado
They honeymoon in a small rundown mountain
Trailer and exactly the same time
Jabbo appeals to and persuades
Chick to leave LA, probably
By motorcycle, to Juarez
By way of Cortez they go North, to go south

In Cortez the two couples meet, argue, fight
Resulting in Sailor and Alice lying
Dead on the trailor floor

Jabbo and Chick, objects of a massive
Statewide search, escape by car
Probably the Buick, and leave to
Juarez, as planned in Juarez, they part