"The Last Conquistadors" genre: Pop/Balada
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	A little song in a Latin rythm with a Canarian timple (a five-string viheula-shaped ukelele) providing local colour!
	Credits: © David Kilpatrick February 2003
	Story Behind the Song I'd been reading some of the 15th to 17th century original accounts of exploration, and the idea just came into my head. I have never before made a recording using the timple, which is an instrument only played in the Canary Islands, one of the staging posts for the New World. I had to learn to play it for this and it sounds very bright and quick; it's an instrument which could be used more. Lyrics We are the last conquistadors We speak the Latin tongue As Ceasar and Columbus did Before the West was won We came to California There was work here to be done We came to California Because you wanted us to come We are the last conquistadors We conquered without guns No fear, no bible, fire or sword We conquered with our sons! Our mothers were your servants But our daughters are your wives We are the last conquistadors We conquered with our lives. (instrumental and repeat v1)

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