La Primera Songtext
von Ian Tyson

It was a long hard voyage to the Americas
In 1493
I was afraid that I would die of thirst
The little mare beside me died
And was put into the sea
But I survived
I swam to shore
I am La Primera

When Cortez sailed for Mexico
From that island in the sun
There were sixteen of us
Sorrels, blacks and bays
One of them was my first born
He was called the Coyote Dun
He survived
And conquered all of Mexico


I am a drinker of the wind
I am the one who never tires
I love my freedom more than all these things
The conquistador, Comanche and the cowboy
I carried them to glory
La Primera, Spanish mustang
Hear my story

Those Comanches were holy terrors
When they climbed upon our backs
When the grass was high
They would raid for a thousand miles

But the Texans had revolvers
When they came back from the war
The buffalo had gone away
The Comanche moon was waning
So it′s come along boys and listen to my tale
We're following the longhorn cow
Going up Mr. Goodnight′s trail you see

Those cowboys were kind to us
We listened to their sad songs all the way
To the far Saskatchewan


I am a drinker of the wind
I am the one who never tires
I love my freedom more than all these things
The conquistador, Comanche and the cowboy
I carried them to glory
La Primera, Spanish mustang
Hear my story

High in the Pryor Mountains
In the first light of dawn
A Coyote Dun walks beneath the morning star
And he became an outlaw
And his blood was watered some
But the flame still burns
Into the new millennium

I am a drinker of the wind
I am the one who never tires
I love my freedom more than all these things
The conquistador, Comanche and the cowboy
I carried them to glory
I am La Primera, Spanish mustang
Hear my story

La Primera, Spanish mustang
Hear my story