original first pressing/release:
TEXAS TORNADOS
REPRISE CDW 46197
4 ACES
track 4: 4 Aces (5:36)
(Doug Sahm)
July 9, 1996, USA, CD (more info about this and other pressings/releases)
Doug Sahm - vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, 12-string guitar and maracas
Freddy Fender - vocals
Flaco Jimenez - accordion, vocals
Augie Meyers - piano, Vox organ, accordion and vocals
Max Baca - bajo sexto
Louie Ortega - lead guitar, rhythm guitar
Allan Rich - keyboard percussion and synthesizer
Jack Barber - bass guitar
George Rains - drums
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On a midnight train to Laredo
Four aces stepped aboard
Gonna find a Laredo rose
Find out who was she chose
She is in love with a bearded sanger
He come from Texas way
Said his name was Willie
And I don't mean say hay
One had an accordion in his left
A cold beer in his right
One was a hippy
Completely out of sight
One was a border sanger
From San Benito they say
One had a pony tail
They shuffled along that day
Four aces going nowhere
Riding gently toward the sun
Four aces going nowhere
Never meant to hurt no one
Willie sought but he could not find her
'Cause Zimmy was in town
He's drinken at the kantina
He ordered up another round
His vato went down for his pistola
I thought we were dead
But as luck would have it
Enter one grateful Fred
Four aces going nowhere
Riding gently toward the sun
Four aces going nowhere
Never meant to hurt no one
The tale of the Texas story
Is read quite well by all
This border queen had something
That made these hombres fall
Like strings of a sweet corrido
The story is the same
She just won a bundle
On the Texas lotto game
Four aces going nowhere
Riding gently toward the sun
Four aces going nowhere
Never meant to hurt no one