Ballad of El Chapo Lyrics

El Chapo was a man as evil as he was sly

El Chapo was a man as evil as he was sly

He taught his friends to kill, he taught his children to die

He said to the drug lords, "Let's go where the money is great"

He said to the drug lords, "Let's go where the money is great"

"From Sinaloa to the land of the United States"

The snow white cocaine, the black tar heroin and the meth

The snow white cocaine, the black tar heroin and the meth

His sweet little minions, they carried out thousands of deaths

The law was in tow, El Chapo was out on the run

The law was in tow, El Chapo was out on the run

He set out that night with his men, each strapped with a gun

On a cold day in May, they kidnapped and murdered the priest

On a cold day in May, they kidnapped and murdered the priest

Each man who had killed him, that very day they were released

The first time they caught him, El Chapo broke out in a grin

He beckoned the prison guard, dropped ten thousand grand in his hand

And within the minute, El Chapo was gone with the wind

He evaded the cops like an itch that you just cannot scratch

He evaded the cops like an itch that you just cannot scratch

Like a snake in the grass, like a fish that you just cannot catch

The cops and the marshals, they found him in a Mexican bar

His hands full of money, his mouth full of cigars

In a matter of hours, El Chapo was back behind bars

He sat in his jail cell, stroking his shadowy chin

He sat in his jail cell, stroking his shadowy chin

The moon through the window crawled on his shrively skin

The guards grew weary, each of them bent out of shape

The guards grew weary, each of them bent out of shape

In the middle of the night, El Chapo made his escape

El Chapo through the night, not once did he look back behind

He chopped through the night, not once did he look back behind

He ran for his life for the Mexican borderline

El Chapo the outlaw, his legend was draped in a cape

El Chapo the outlaw, the legend who rode with a cape

Three times was he captured, just twice did he manage to escape

El Chapo the drug lord, El Chapo the master of war

El Chapo the billionaire, poor on the cold prison floor

How will you be remembered, the day that you're breathin' no more?