I'm a travelling salesman
I travel over the world
And I leave my wife at home
Knowing she'll be a good little girl
But we have a roamer
In our little spring
And here is the story
Of what that dude did to me

That dude of a roamer
From New Mexico way
No doubt that jerk
From Albuquerque
He's in that same mood today
What he did to my little chick
While I was away
South of her border
Down Mexico way

When I came home
The little muchacha was crying
And I think I heard so tenderly
But I thought I heard it say mañana
And it ain't one drop of Spanish in me

South of the border
I rode back one day
And I shot him right between his Rio Grande and his Santa Fe
There's one thing I know now
Oh, he'll never play
South of her border Down Mexico way

South of the border
I rode back one day
And I shot him right between his Rio Grande and his Santa Fe
There's one thing I know now
Oh, he'll never play
South of her border Down Mexico way
We're never ever ever do it again