Released: January 19, 1987
Songwriter: David Hidalgo Louie Pérez
Producer: Los Lobos T Bone Burnett
When it's up to you
To figure what's right and wrong
It's someone else's parade
And yours is an unhappy song
When it hurts so bad
And you feel you can't go on
Each day goes by too fast
And the nights are so very long
You'll find out true
What mother said to you
The tears of God will show you the way
The way to turn
When your only escape
Is a cheap nickel wine
And the peace you need in your heart
Is so very hard to find
It's a stubborn life we lead
And there's never no rest
Trouble's out there looking for you
Even when you try your best
You'll find out true
What mother said to you
The tears of God will show you the way
The way to turn
Hide not your head
The way to turn
Hear what He once said
He'll show you the way
For there is a world for you and me
Where the blind, too, can see
Through the tears of God
The Son of the Maker said
"This is my cross to bear"
Taking off of our shoulders
Something we should have shared
You'll find out true
What mother said to you
That tears of God will show you the way
The way to turn
To figure what's right and wrong
It's someone else's parade
And yours is an unhappy song
When it hurts so bad
And you feel you can't go on
Each day goes by too fast
And the nights are so very long
You'll find out true
What mother said to you
The tears of God will show you the way
The way to turn
When your only escape
Is a cheap nickel wine
And the peace you need in your heart
Is so very hard to find
It's a stubborn life we lead
And there's never no rest
Trouble's out there looking for you
Even when you try your best
You'll find out true
What mother said to you
The tears of God will show you the way
The way to turn
Hide not your head
The way to turn
Hear what He once said
He'll show you the way
For there is a world for you and me
Where the blind, too, can see
Through the tears of God
The Son of the Maker said
"This is my cross to bear"
Taking off of our shoulders
Something we should have shared
You'll find out true
What mother said to you
That tears of God will show you the way
The way to turn
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- Lil’ King of Everything
- Wicked Rain
- Midnight Shift
- Why Do You Do
- Bertha
- Come On, Let’s Go
- Tomorrow Never Knows (live 1993)
- Is This All There Is?
- Someday
- Dream in Blue
- Oh Yeah
- Sabor a Mi
- That Train Don’t Stop Here
- River of Fools
- The Neighborhood
- Angels With Dirty Faces
- How Much Can I Do?
- I Got Loaded
- Set Me Free (Rosa Lee)
- When the Circus Comes
- Goodnight My Love
- Route 90
- She’s About a Mover (live 1996)
- Mas y Mas
- This Bird’s Gonna Fly
- Angel Dance
- Cumbia Raza (English version)
- Beautiful Maria of My Soul
- Lonely Avenue
- This Time
- Rip It Up
- Down Where the Drunkards Roll
- Can’t Stop the Rain
- Anselma
- Corrido #1
- Kiko and the Lavender Moon
- La Bamba
- Be Still
- Saint Behind the Glass
- Quatro Vicios [Ry Cooder with David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas]
- Let’s Say Goodnight
- I Walk Alone
- Peace (demo)
- Estoy Sentado Aqui
- Will the Wolf Survive?
- Lonesome Tears in My Eyes
- Maricela
- Tears of God
- Viking
- I Can’t Understand
- Don’t Worry Baby
- Down on the Riverbed
- Revolution
- Alone in a Crowd
- I Wanna Be Like You (The Monkey Song)
- Evangeline
- Guantanamera
- Little John of God
- What’s Going On?
- Shakin’ Shakin’ Shakes
- Till the Hands Fall Off the Clock
- My Baby’s Gone
- Try Me
- La Pistola y el Corazón
- Rio de Tenampa (demo)
- One Time, One Night
- A Matter of Time
- By the Light of the Moon (1987)
- El Cancionero Mas Y Mas (2000)
- Canción Del Mariachi
- La Bamba
- We Belong Together
- Beautiful Maria of My Soul
- Rango Theme Song
- Hurry Tomorrow
- The Neighborhood
- Round & Round
- Not in Nottingham
- La, La, La
- River of Fools
- Prenda del Alma
- That Train Don’t Stop Here
- Bare Necessities
- West LA Freeway
- Lemon ’n Ice
- Sabor a Mi
- Wake Up Dolores
- All My Bridges Burning
- Oh Yeah
- Hold On (acoustic)
- River Of Fools [Live]
- Cumbia Raza
- Can’t Stop the Rain (live)