From the recording Almost Famous in Alberta & Other True Stories (The Album)
Recorded at Jim Brady Studios in Tucson, May 2020. The guitar is Jim's 1962 Martin D-18. (My Thompson cracked in the desert air and required repair) The microphone is a 1955 Neumann U-87.
Lyrics
Conquistadores de la noche
copyright 2019 Virgil Brown Music
Another rainy night another neon light
Through a windshield holding raindrops full of colored light
down a lonely street we’re walking to the beat
Me and my shadow bustin’ puddles with our soggy feet
Traffic makes a rainy sound we hear a jet above
Tryin’ to forget and not regret a love
He doesn’t need no name my shadow looks ahead
Sees something shiny and remembers what his mama said
Hold onto every lucky penny you find make it shine make it shine
You only go around one time don’t make love hard to find
Me my shadow and I
Conquistadors of the night
What makes a baby sigh? What makes a raven cry?
There’s a dark cloud over me sometimes, I wonder why
my shadow’s feelin Down, He glides across the ground
There’s a perfect kind of love that may be never found
In the Disappearing night, my shadow stakes his claim
We keep each other company assigning blame
The wishbone didn’t work, the four leaf clover too
In the shadowland of darkness we’ve been walking through
Hold onto every lucky penny you find make it shine make it shine
You only go around one time don’t make love hard to find