Willie Nelson And Ray Charles Sing Hit "Seven Spanish Angels"

Jan 28, 2020 by apost team

What do a country star and an R&B musician have in common? “Seven Spanish Angels.” Watch Willie Nelson and Ray Charles perform this brilliant duet together. When Shotgun Willie and The Genius of Soul get together, the result is pure magic!

“Seven Spanish Angels” was written by Eddie Setser and Troy Seals, but it’s Brother Ray and The Red Headed Stranger who made it famous, reports the Texas Hill Country. This Willie Nelson and Ray Charles duet combines powerhouses from two different genres, and you won’t be able to turn it off. In fact, you’ll want to replay the song again and again.

This song was the most successful hit Ray Charles ever had in the country charts. He and Willie split the verses, with Ray Charles singing the first verse and Willie Nelson the second. In this homage to Tejano music, a Mexican outlaw and his girlfriend try to outrun a posse. They don’t want to get caught and have to go back to Texas. Eventually, however, the outlaw couple is cornered by the Texas lawmen.

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The song opens as the lawmen near on horseback and the couple prepares to confront their fate. The Mexican outlaw looks down into the “brown eyes” of his lover and asks her to say a prayer for him. She throws her arms around him in an impassioned embrace, saying, “God will keep us free.” Her lover promises that he’ll never be taken back to Texas. “This is my last fight,” he vows.

When the Mexican outlaw opens fire on the approaching posse, he’s felled by the lawmen. His girlfriend is left alive to snatch up the dying man’s rifle. Knowing the gun is unloaded, she makes a final brave stand anyway. She aims the rifle at the lawmen, only to be shot dead herself.

And where do the seven Spanish angels come in? They’re in the chorus of the song. Those seven Spanish angels get together and pray “at the altar of the sun” for those “lovers in the Valley of the Gun.” And in the end, after the smoke from the battle clears, those angels take two more angles home.

You can’t listen to this song with a dry eye. The combined musical forces of Ray Charles and Willie Nelson are bound to move your soul. You’ll want to hear this story of the Mexican outlaw, his girlfriend, and those seven Spanish angels more than just once. And you’ll want your friends to hear it, too. Stir their souls by letting them know about this touching story told in song by two of America’s best musicians.