I finally found both lyrics and chords on Cowpie. Here they are:

Gallo Del Cielo,
by Tom Russell [Written in a garage in Mountain View, CA in 1979]
Transcribed by Dean Munyon
This version from the "Poor Man's Dream" album. Tom Russell has several different versions of this song on his various albums. This is one is characterized by a very strong alternating bass line.

Each [chord] or "/" indicates one measure. (The "/" means repeat the last-notated chord).

Key of F: play in D and capo at third fret

Intro: [G]///[A]///[Em][A][G][A][D]///

[D]Carlos Zaragoza left his home in Casas Grandes when the [Em]moon was full,
No [A]money in his pocket, just a locket of his sister framed in [D]gold.
He rode into El Sueco, stole a rooster called Gallo Del Ci[Em]elo.
Then he [A]swam the Rio Grande with that [G]fighter nestled [A]deep beneath his [D]arm.

El [D]Gallo Del Cielo was a rooster born in heaven, so the [Em]legends say.
His [A]wings, they had been broken, he had one eye rollin' crazy in his [D]head.
And he'd fought a hundred fights, and the legends say that one night near El [Em]Sueco
They'd [A]fought Gallo seven times, and [G]seven times he'd [A]left brave roosters [D]dead.

[G]"Hola, my Theresa, I am thinking of you now in San An[A]tonio.
I have [Em]twenty-seven [A]dollars
and the [Em]good luck of your picture framed in [A]gold.
[G]Tonight I'll put it all on the fighting spurs of Gallo Del Ci[A]elo,
And then [Em]I'll return to [A]buy the land [G]Villa stole from [A]father long [D]ago."

Out[D]side of San Diego, in the onion fields of Paco Monte[Em]verde,
The [A]Pride of San Diego lay sleeping on a fancy bed of [D]silk,
And they laughed when Zaragoza pulled the one-eyed del Cielo from [Em]beneath his coat,
But they [A]cried when Zaragoza walked a[G]way with a[A]thousand dollar [D]bill.

[G]"Hola, my Theresa, I am thinking of you now in Santa [A]Barbara.
I have [Em]fifteen hundred [A]dollars and the [Em]good luck of your picture framed in [A]gold.
[G]Tonight I'll put it all on the fighting spurs of Gallo Del Ci[A]elo,
And then [Em]I'll return to [A]buy the land [G]Villa stolefrom [A]father long [D]ago."

Now the [D]moon has gone to hiding and the lantern light spills shadows on the [Em]fighting sand
Where a [A]wicked black named Zorro faces Gallo del Cielo in the [D]night.
But Carlos Zaragoza fears the tiny crack that runs across his [Em]rooster's beak
And he [A]fears he has lost the fifty [G]thousand dollars [A]riding on the [D]fight.

[G]"Hola, my Theresa, I am thinking of you now in Santa [A]Clara.
Yes, the [Em]money's on the [A]table, I am [Em]holding to your good luck framed in [A]gold,
And [G]everything we've dreamed of is riding on the spurs of Del Ci[A]elo.
I pray that [Em]I'll return to [A]buy the land [G]Villa stole from [A]father long [D]ago."

Then the [D]signal it was given, and the cocks rose together far [Em]above the sand.
El [A]Gallo del Cielo sunk a gaff into Zorro's shiny [D]breast.
They were separated quickly but they rose and fought each other thirty [Em]seven times,
And the [A]legends say that everyone [G]agreed that Del Ci[A]elo fought the [D]best.

Then the [D]screams of Zaragoza filled the night outside the town of Santa [Em]Clara
As the [A]beak of del Cielo lay broken like a shell within his [D]hand,
And they say that Zaragoza screamed a curse upon the bones of Pancho [Em]Villa
When [A]Zorro rose up one last time and [G]drove del Ci[A]elo to the [D]sand.

[G]"Hola, my Theresa, I am thinking of you now in San Fran[A]cisco.
I have no [Em]money in my [A]pocket, I no [Em]longer have your good luck framed in [A]gold.
I [G]buried it last evening with the bones of my beloved Del Ci[A]elo,
And I'll [Em]not return to [A]buy the land [G]Villa stole from [A]father long [D]ago.

"Do the [G]rivers still run muddy outside of my beloved Casas [A]Grandes?
Des the [Em]scar upon my [A]brother's face turn [Em]red whenhe hears mention of my [A]name?
Do the [G]people of El Sueco curse the theft of Gallo del Ci[A]elo?
Well, [Em]tell my family [A]not to worry, [G]I will not [A]return to cause them [D]shame."

Outro: [G]///[A]///[Em][A][G][A][D]///