Isabel and her brown skin shined like a sapphire in the summer sun

The pride and joy of a Mexican lawman who lived by the gun

He got cross ways with the cartel, they shot down his only son Jose

So in fear of his daughter's life he packed their bags

And late one night she heard him say

"I hear the grass is greener just beyond that Laredo border line

They say freedom is much sweeter than sweet blood, red sangria wine

South Texas looks like heaven when you're down here in this living hell

So come on let's cross that Rio, the coast is clear Isabel

The coast is clear Isabel"

They came across our homestead, tired and hungry, cold and moving slow

We had fence to build a warm place to stay and they had nowhere to go

So I worked cattle with her father, we were stretching wire and driving post all day

While Isabel worked with my mother and late at night I held her tight

She'd take my breath away

I hear the grass is greener just beyond that Laredo border line

They say freedom is much sweeter than sweet blood, red sangria wine

South Texas looks like heaven when you're down here in this living hell

So come on let's cross that Rio, the coast is clear Isabel

The coast is clear Isabel

The sheriff came across her father, they treated him like an outlaw on the run

And Isabel now wears my diamond and that little boy she holds is my son

We got a green card for her father Mariano but it came two years too late

We got word that he'd been gunned down in a border town

Shot in the back, the last thing they heard him say

"I hear the grass is greener just beyond that Laredo border line

And they say that freedom is much sweeter than sweet blood, red sangria wine

South Texas looks like heaven when you're down here in this living hell

So come on let's cross that Rio, the coast is clear Isabel"

The coast is clear Isabel

The coast is clear Isabel

Clear Isabel

Clear Isabel