[Verse 1: Jann Browne] This is my third night under bright shooting stars I have crossed into Mexico, maybe that's where you are You told me you'd come here if our love should end Eighty miles past the border on the Mexican wind [Verse 2: Jann Browne] So I followed the dusty roads into Flores Magon And they said you had left there for Aquiles Serdan [Jann Browne & Emmylou Harris] You told me you'd come here if our love should end Eighty miles past the border on the Mexican wind [Chorus: Jann Browne & Emmylou Harris] There's a place in the desert Where we let it begin We would dance close together All the candles would dim In a quiet cantina [Jann Browne] With sweet mandolins As they'd serenade softly [Jann & Emmylou] On the Mexican wind [Verse 3: Jann Browne] My life, it seems to slow down the further I go Into the bare heart of old Mexico [Jann & Emmylou] Still I keep searching for someone who once let me in [Jann Browne] But somehow I lost him to the Mexican wind [Chorus: Jann & Emmylou] There's a place in the desert Where we let it begin We would dance close together All the candles would dim In a quiet cantina [Jann] With sweet mandolins As they'd serenade softly [Jann & Emmylou] On the Mexican wind [Tag: Jann & Emmylou] Eighty miles past the border on the Mexican wind