{"id":923,"date":"2021-05-10T05:20:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T05:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=923"},"modified":"2026-02-10T00:55:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T00:55:27","slug":"south-of-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/south-of-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"South of the Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"128\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/be_0SRMlN5M\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/robertandrews.net\/songpics\/Q-S\/south-of-the-border.jpg\">SHEET MUSIC<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">SOUTH OF THE BORDER 1939 |<\/span><\/p>\n<pre>{artist: Gene Autry}\r\n{key: C}\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: 900;\">[C] [G] [G7] [C] [F] [C] \r\nSouth of the [C] bor-[Em]der, [Dm] down [G] Mexico [C] way.  That\u2019s where I fell in love, when [Em] stars a-[Dm]bove came [G] out to play. [G7] And now as I [C] wander, [C7] my thoughts ever [F] stray, [Dm] south of the [C] bor-[Em]der, [Dm] down [G] Mexico [C] way \r\n(down [F] Mexico [C] way).\r\n\r\nShe was a [C] pic-[Em]ture [Dm] in [G] old Spanish [C] lace.  Just for a tender while, I [Em] kissed a [Dm] smile u-[G]pon her face, [G7]  \u2019cause it was [C] fiesta, [C7] and we were so [F] gay, [Dm]  south of the [C] bor-[Em]der, [Dm] down [G] Mexico [C] way. .\r\n\r\nThen she [C] sighed as she whispered man-[G]jana,  never dreaming that [G7] we were [C] parting.  And I lied as a whispered man-[G]jana,  for our to-[C]morrow [G] never [C] came.\r\n\r\nSouth of the [C] bor-[Em]der, [Dm] I [G] rode back one [C] day.  There in a veil of white, by [Em] candle [Dm] light she [G] knelt to pray. [G7]   The mission bells [C] told me [C7] that I mustn\u2019t [F] stay, [Dm]  south of the [C] bor-[Em]der, [Dm] down [G] Mexico [C] way \r\n\r\nAy ay ay [G] ay, ay ay ay [C] ay. Ay ay ay [G] ay, ay - ay - [G7] ay - [C] ay.\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHEET MUSIC SOUTH OF THE BORDER 1939 | {artist: Gene Autry} {key: C} [C] [G] [G7] [C] [F] [C] South of the [C] bor-[Em]der, [Dm] down [G] Mexico [C] way. That\u2019s where I fell in love, when [Em] stars a-[Dm]bove came [G] out to play. [G7] And now as I &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/south-of-the-border\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">South of the Border<\/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":[133,126,13,116,117,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-songpics-sheetmusic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","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=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29801,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions\/29801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}