The Cisco Kid (song) "Billboard" Top 40 for 2 weeks at the end of April and start of May 1973. It was kept out of the #1 spot by Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree by Tony Orlando and Dawn On the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, it peaked at #5. Outside the US, it went to #1 on the "RPM 100" Canadian singles chart. It became a gold record. The Cisco Kid (song) "The Cisco Kid" is a song performed by War, and written by Thomas Allen, B. B. Dickerson, Harold Brown, and Charles Miller, all members of War at
Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree four weeks in April 1973, number one on the Australian charts for seven weeks from May to July 1973 and number one on the New Zealand charts for ten weeks from June to August 1973. It was the top-selling single in 1973 in both the US and UK. In 2008, "Billboard" ranked the song as the 37th biggest song of all time in its issue celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Hot 100. The song is told from the point of view of someone who has "done his time" but is uncertain if he will be welcomed home. He writes