Ian Tyson La Primera Lyrics:
[C Am]
It was a long hard voyage to the Americas in 1493
[C Gm]
I was afraid that I would die of thirst
[F Am C]
The little mare beside me died and was put into the sea,
[G7 Am]
but I survived. I swam to shore. I am La Primera

When Cortez sailed from 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.
[Am]
[Chorus:]
I am a drinker of the wind.

I am the one who never tires.
[F]
I love my freedom than all these things.
[C Am F]
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The Conquistador, Comanche and the cowboy, I carried them to glory
[C G7 Am]
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. [capo 2nd fret or key D]
[D Bm]
So it's come along boys and listen to my tale.
We are following the longhorn cow
[D Am]
Going up Mister Goodnite's trail, you see.
[G Bm D]
Those cowboys were kind to us. We listened to their sad songs
[A Bm]
All the way to the far Saskatchewan.

[Chorus]

High in the Pryor Mountains in first light of dawn
A Coyote Dun walks beneath the Morning Star.
He became an outlaw and his blood was watered some,
but the flame still burns into the new millennium.

[Chorus]
Lyrics: La Primera, Ian Tyson [end]