>>>>I gotta say this whole thread makes me nostalgic for a time before pcs when I had a lot of time on my hands and a really good connection for Owsley windowpane <s>
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>>>Stayed away from it myself.
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>>>But, does this lyric ring any bells?
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>>>Me and Martha took a honeymoon
>>>Below the border 'neath the silvery moon.
>>>She was eighteen and I was twenty-two
>>>Now we're just a'doin' what the young folk do.
>>>We're goin' south,
>>>To get that...
>>>Ain't nothin' it can't fix,
>>>Old dogs can learn new tricks,
>>>When the streets are lined with bricks
>>>Of...
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>>I think when that was being heard here ( wasn't that a promotional jingle for the Acapulco tourist board ? ) I was living up in the mountains in the Golden Triangle and my journal read a lot like this thread. <s>
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>Yep. The Acapulco tourist board might have had a far better response, but for some reason (nobody knows why) it really didn't get heard much at all. I guess the radio stations didn't want people vacationing out of the country, so Mexico lost out on a golden opportunity.

I can't really play it in my head, but I seem to remember there was no attribution or whoever was doing it was somebody nobody ever heard of. A bit like Peter Rowan. I remember a favorite of the late 70s by him - The The Free Mexican Airforce. Musically pretty cool - very TexMex with Flaco Jimenez on accordian and I think Ry Cooder may have been on it as a side man. Don't know if it got airplay anywhere but on the west coast ( KFAT in SF ) but he used to play live in the Bay Area around then and that was always a showstopper.