text: 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 and she’d take my breath away
  I hear the grass is greener just beyond that Laredo border line
  They say Nfreedom 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