when I saw you in the garden of Gethsemanie   drunk when you realized the plan   you fell into the arms of Mary Magdalene   stain of stigmata on your hands   when the sky fell down on Calvary   I saw the light shining in your eyes, yeah      'cause you and me baby   we were born ten thousand years ago, yeah,   yeah now, and I know it sounds crazy, but we got ten thousand more to go, yeah      and then we followed behind the sisters to La Hagera   saw Ramos kiss like a Judas on the wire   when they cut his hair and they laid him out like Jesus   I know October sixty-seven John Lennon lied   Seargent Pepper could not help us, no   when the flowers died, I realized, yeah      that you and me baby   we were born ten thousand years ago, yeah   yeah now, and I know it sounds crazy, but we got ten thousand more to go, yeah   Oh I don't hear it now, yeah      and in twenty-one twenty-nine we gonna meet in a cantina in Carletta   I'm gonna put Bessie Smith on the jukebox all night long   when the Spanish sun comes up on our empty cups   I'm gonna take you dancin deep down into the dawn      and one bright mornin when we meet Saint peter, yeah   I ain't gonna give a damn if he dont let us in      'cause you and me baby   we were born ten thousand years ago, yeah   yeah now,    and I know it sounds crazy,but we got ten thousand more to go, yeah      Robert Johnson knew your name   short for Billy Holiday   put the barricades in nineteen sixty eight   'cause you knew the man who shot JFK   Lenin gonna love it    Lord I heard the news   just the Basilicas fear the Jews   there will be another curse on the passage of guilt   Steve Lawrence sang the blues, yeah      you and me baby   we were born ten thousand years ago, yeah   yeah now,    and I know it sounds crazy, but we got ten thousand more to go    I don't hear it now, yeah