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      Strolling with my lover hand and hand   Lord I?d give anything to be   Down on the Rio Grande   Down on the Rio Grande      Strolling with my lover hand and hand   Lord I?d give anything to be   Down on the Rio Grande      Down on the Rio Grande   Down on the Rio Grande