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Together After Five, 1970
Written by Doug Sahm
Another fun slice of Tex-Mex, slightly cajun, folk-rock from the Quintet. Here, the narrator is smitten with a raven-haired senorita he espies "in a dimly lit cafe." (This is an unusually common situation in popular song, from "El Paso" to "Down In Mexico.") Anyhoo, it seems like a match made in a border town: "Sittin' on an old bar stool / Lookin′ like nobody's fool / Her heart was meant that she was going to go home with only me." Just then, though, like in "Gimme Three Steps," a hulking fellow about an inch shorter than Bad, Bad Leroy Brown comes in and the narrator's hopes are shattered. Asà es la vida.
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