Buena vaquero: Spanish for Good Cowboy
Reata: lasso made from woven cow hide strips
Starting a horse: training a young horse how to be ridden
Two rein: a fancy rein using 2 lines on each side of the horse's bridle, very difficult to handle
Spurs never raked hide nor hair: these spurs were strictly for show and never touched the horse
Had his own lingo: by touching the horse with a foot or leg in a certain spot or moving the rein just slightly it is possible to communicate to a well trained horse very precise directions. This technique is the basis for the art of dressage

This song is based on a true story of a Mexican cowboy that a friend of Dave's knew back in the 1960s. While this cowboy was mounted on his horse, he would hang onto a reata which was suspended from a rafter in an old barn. Then his horse would spin in a circle making it look like he was hanging from the reata and twirling in one spot. Spinning is a very difficult maneuver with a horse under any circumstance, let alone making it seem you and the horse are suspended from a rope.

Started young horses in Bosca te Ador
Unto the two reign the old Spanish spade
Brought them along with two hands that were gentle
Some fine reigning horses as ever were made

And he'd spin that pony hanging onto the reata
He hung from a rafter in the Willow Creek barn
And I watched and I wondered man how could he do that
Then he'd change direction and spin him some more
Round and round, spinnin' and round

Had them big spurs that came from Chihuahua
They never had ever raked hide nor hair
They had a nice jingle and when he rode by
They made pertty music that danced on the air

Lived in a shack with his wife named Juanita
She cooked on a wood stove tortillas and beans
After we'd eaten he said come I show
What the word handle on a good cowhorse means

And he'd spin that pony hanging onto the reata
He hung from a rafter in the Willow Creek barn
And I watched and I wondered man how could he do that
Then he'd change direction and spin him some more
Round and round, spinnin' and round

He never did shout, he never did whisper
He had his own lingo that they understood
The touch of a knee or the lift of a rein
His horses all gave him the best that they could

In an old shed out behind his adobie
I helped him to hang up his bridles and gear
That's where I discovered an old tarp that covered
Three trophy saddles won back many years

And he'd spin that pony hanging onto the reata
He hung from a rafter in the Willow Creek barn
And I watched and I wondered man how could he do that
Then he'd change direction and spin him some more

And he'd spin that pony hanging onto the reata
He hung from a rafter in the Willow Creek barn
And I watched and I wondered man how could he do that
Then he'd change direction and spin him some more

Round and round, spinnin' and round
Round and round, spinnin' and round
Round and round, spinnin' and round
Round and round, spinnin' and round
Round and round, spinnin' and round
Round and round, spinnin' and round