{"id":10797,"date":"2022-06-22T23:24:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T23:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=10797"},"modified":"2025-09-17T19:46:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T19:46:19","slug":"ballad-of-poncho-lopez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/ballad-of-poncho-lopez\/","title":{"rendered":"Poncho Lopez, Ballad of . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

D Pancho Lopez<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Born in Chihuahua in 1903, On a serapi out under a tree,<\/span><\/strong>
\nHe was so fat, he could hardly see,<\/span><\/strong>
\nHe could eat 12 tacos, when he was only three,<\/span><\/strong>
\nPancho, Pancho Lopez, he come from Old Mexico.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

When he was seven, he could shoot his gun,<\/span><\/strong>
\nRide his burrow, till the day was done,<\/span><\/strong>
\nBut when there’s work to do, why Pancho he run,<\/span><\/strong>
\nHe go out a grinning, to sleep out in the Sun.<\/span><\/strong>
\nPancho, Pancho Lopez, you lazy son of a gun.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Come the revolution, & Pancho he got sore,<\/span><\/strong>
\nHe go with Pancho Villa, to fight in the war.<\/span><\/strong>
\nBut Pancho he don’t like, this risky chore,<\/span><\/strong>
\nHe come back to Chihuahua and he sleeps some more,<\/span><\/strong>
\nPancho, Pancho Lopez, He lie in the Sun and snore.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

When he wake up, his sleeping all done,<\/span><\/strong>
\nThe wetback movement, had just begun,<\/span><\/strong>
\nSo he packed his guitar, the son of a gun,<\/span><\/strong>
\nAnd he come to Arizona, to follow the sun.<\/span><\/strong>
\nPancho, Pancho Lopez, he swim across the Rio grande.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Pancho he worked, \u2018til he almost dropped,<\/span><\/strong>
\nOut in the fields, he picked the crops,<\/span><\/strong>
\nHe came to Beatitudes, and he opened up,<\/span><\/strong>
\nA taco stand, and his troubles, they stop.<\/span><\/strong>
\nPancho, Pancho Lopez, the king of Plaza View.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

So if you’re ever, in the Plaza View Lounge,<\/span><\/strong>
\nGo to the Dining Rm, and there he\u2019ll be found,<\/span><\/strong>
\nSelling his tacos, and his beans by the pound.<\/span><\/strong>
\nOld Chihuahua, it was never like this,<\/span><\/strong>
\nPancho, Pancho Lopez, the hero of Beatitudes.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

D Pancho Lopez Born in Chihuahua in 1903, On a serapi out under a tree, He was so fat, he could hardly see, He could eat 12 tacos, when he was only three, Pancho, Pancho Lopez, he come from Old Mexico. When he was seven, he could shoot his gun, … CLICK TO VIEW SONGPoncho Lopez, Ballad of . . .<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,116,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}