Lyr Req: The Great El Tigre

Subject: The Great El Tigre
From: CowboyDan
Date: 23 Jul 00 - 04:45 PM

My father used to sing this late at night toward the end of the party. All I can remember are two lines from the chorus: "Can this be the Great El Tigre, or has the Great El Tigre died?" The tune is pretty vague in my memory too. If Art Theime is out there, do you remember me from Juneway Terrace and the No Exit?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Great El Tigre
From: GUEST,Banjo Johnny
Date: 23 Jul 00 - 09:25 PM

There was a revolutionary in New Mexico during the sixties, whose name was Reyes Tijerina - his followers called him Rey Tigre, or El Tigre. == Johnny

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Great El Tigre
From: CowboyDan
Date: 24 Jul 00 - 01:33 AM

Thanks Johnny, but that's not the one. I heard this in the fifties. Maybe somebody could write a new song for this guy. Dan

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Great El Tigre
From: Sorcha
Date: 24 Jul 00 - 01:50 AM

I think Chet Atkins recorded it on his album, "The Bandit" 1972, RCA. Search engine Copernic also shows somebody called The Babcocks as having recorded it. No lyrics to be found though.

Subject: Lyr Add: EL TIGRE ^^
From: Art Thieme
Date: 24 Jul 00 - 02:48 PM

Dan, not sure if I remember you, but I remember Juneway Terrace and the No Exit pretty damn well. (see P.S. below)

Anyhow, here's the song. It was a hit of sorts for a country singer on RCA named Stu Phillips. I think that Chet Atkins produced Stu's LP for RCA and played on the track. That LP left my posession lang ago. God knows when.

All the best,

Art Thieme

EL TIGRE

Can that be the great El Tigre sitting there,
That gray haired old man on the banch in the village square,
Could that be the famous bandido of days gone by,
Could that be the fierce El Tigre, or did the real El Tigre die?

Chorus:
........He'll be remembered forevermore,
........By the rich that he stole from and the poor he stole for.

He once met a senorita on a raid,
Sweet little Juanita who smiled up at him unafraid,
And as eyes of steel softened up at the sight that they saw,
And love found a heart no bullet had been able to find before.

Chorus:
........Though he was a bandido with a price on his head,
........Te amo querrida, take me with you she said.

Can that be the great El Tigre sitting there,
That old man asleep on the bench in the village square,
And as he dreams a sweet old senora appears,
And then as she gently wakes him she whispers into his ear.

chorus:
Querrida mia, the time it has flown,
Vamanos mi bandido, it is time to go home.

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P.S.----Hey, wait a minute, Are you Danny Gr----m? If so, how's Jessica? I'm glad you're alive ! How the hell did any of us survive those days? ;-) **SMILE**

^^

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Great El Tigre
From: Art Thieme
Date: 24 Jul 00 - 02:52 PM

I think Stu Phillips song was out around '63 or '64 !?

Art

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Great El Tigre
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Jul 00 - 03:07 PM

Anybody have an idea who wrote this? BMI has at least seven songs with this title. Is the performer the same Stu Phillips who did a great CD of Canadian songs called Journey Through the Provinces?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Great El Tigre
From: Art Thieme
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 11:08 AM

Joe,

I don't know if that was the same fellow or not. But I suspect it was. I do think he was Canadian though.

Art