"Put On Your White Sombrero" is a song by the Swedish pop group ABBA, recorded during sessions for the band's 1980 album Super Trouper. It had the working titles "Spansk II", "Pig Party On Mallorca" and "Padre". Although recorded in Polar Studios in September 1980, the song did not make it to the final track list of the album.
Despite having completed the track, the group's two songwriters Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, believing that it would not make a strong single, decided to shelve it in favour of the album's title track. As a result, "Put On Your White Sombrero" would remain unreleased until 1994 when it debuted on the box set Thank You for the Music. It has subsequently been included as a bonus track on most CD reissues of the Super Trouper album since 1997.
The track's arrangement was re-used in the song "Cassandra", which was recorded for ABBA's next intended studio album (following 1981's The Visitors) in the summer of 1982. This project was later abandoned, and the group would instead release a compilation album called The Singles: The First Ten Years in November 1982. "Cassandra" was used as the B-side to the single "The Day Before You Came". "Cassandra" has later surfaced, by popular demand, on ABBA compilation albums and on remastered versions of The Visitors album as a "bonus track".
Put on your white Sombrero saddle your horse my dear
And ride off into the sunset
You better go for there is no
Place for you here
Like an old fashioned hero you stand before me
Ohh, you think our life is a movie
My world is real I live and feel
And I can do without you
Put on your white Sombrero your red bandana too
Think of this day as a showdown
Goodbye my friend this is the end
For me and you
Now be a bold Vaquero don't show your feelings
I, I'll cry while you're disappearing
Into the night all dressed in white unchained
And free without me
Put on your white Sombrero like all the cowboys do
Go find a sweet senorita
Somebody meet who'll never speak
More harshly to you
You're such a caballero Proud, never bending
I, I want someone who will take me
Just as I am I need a man
Who is in rhyme with his time
Ohh, you'll never take me
Just as I am I need a man who is in rhyme
With his time