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Let's Do The Mexican Standoff!

from Back With A Dungeon! by Danny Ramirez

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'The title already popped up in 1999 or 2000, but it took about ten years before I wrote some lyrics around it. A Mexican standoff is a confrontation between two or more parties, in which no participant can proceed or retreat without being exposed to danger, according to my friend Wikipedia. So the words are just about this, with four dudes each pointing two guns at one another and really nothing happening otherwise. For the music I mostly relied on traditional Mexican guitar chord progressions and an occasional lead trumpet throughout the song. It was first (and thus far only) performed live on November 18, 2016.'

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Chorus:
Let's do the Mexican standoff
All you need is four or more guns
Some people and also some sort of
Room where no one else will come

We don't have no knives
We don't even have to take a life
It's all about power and control
And who has the strongest nerves of all

Chorus

Eight arms, four guys
Eight guns pointed, going left to right
Words are our saviour in this war
But don't forget to add some 'por favors'

Chorus


'The title already popped up in 1999 or 2000, but it took about ten years before I wrote some lyrics around it. A Mexican standoff is a confrontation between two or more parties, in which no participant can proceed or retreat without being exposed to danger, according to my friend Wikipedia. So the words are just about this, with four dudes each pointing two guns at one another and really nothing happening otherwise. For the music I mostly relied on traditional Mexican guitar chord progressions and an occasional lead trumpet throughout the song. It was first (and thus far only) performed live on November 18, 2016.'

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from Back With A Dungeon!, released August 31, 2016
Danny Ramirez - acoustic rhythm guitar, trumpet, vocals

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Danny Ramirez Leiden, Netherlands

Danny Ramirez is a singer-songwriter from the Netherlands and the guitar player for stonerdoom band Toner Low! Besides playing morbid folk he has some one-man bands as well, but most of his releases are Ramirez EPs! Danny did solo gigs in the Netherlands, Finland, France and Germany, and played with a.o. Amigo The Devil, Bob Wayne, Joe Buck Yourself (Hank III) and The Goddamn Gallows! ... more

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