Here's Nellie Wilson doing it - he adds another half verse, I've included it here:

ACROSS THE BORDERLINE (Ry Cooder/John Hiatt/Jim Dickinson, 1993)

There's a place, where I've been told,
Every street is paved with gold
And it's just across the borderline
And when it's time to take your turn
There's a lesson that you must learn
You could lose more than you'll ever find.

And when you reach that broken promised land
And every dream slips though your hand
You know it's too late to change your mind
Cause you pay the price to come so far
Just to wind up where you are
And you're still just across the borderline.

Up and down The Rio Grande
A thousand footprints in the sand
Reveal a secret no one can define
The river flows on like a breath
In between our life and death
Who쳌fs the next to cross the borderline.

Hope remains when pride is gone
And it keeps you moving on
Carrying you across the borderline


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deoqz6V9mqk&feature=fvst