EL PASO by Marty Robbins
David P
Help! I've scoured every link I could find and while International
Lyrics got me close, their link 'timed out' just before I could get to
that page.
Any help would be appreciated, thanx.
Fargo
David P wrote in message <35956887...@ibm.net>...
Here ya go, Dave.
Fargo
EL PASO -- words and music by Marty Robbins
Out in the West Texas town of El Paso
I fell in love with a Mexican girl
Nighttime would find me in Rosa's cantina
Music would play and Felina would whirl
Blacker than night were the eyes of Felina
Wicked and evil while casting a spell
My love was deep for this Mexican maiden
I was in love, but in vain I could tell
One night a wild young cowboy came in
Wild as the West Texas wind
Dashing and daring, a drink he was sharing
With wicked Felina, the girl that I loved
So in anger I challenged his right for the love of this maiden
Down went his hand for the gun that he wore
My challenge was answered in less than a heartbeat
The handsome young stranger lay dead on the floor
Just for a moment I stood there In silence
Shocked by the foul evil deed I had done
Many thoughts raced through my mind as I stood there
I had but one chance and that was to run
Out through the back door of Rosa's I ran
Out where the horses were tied
I caught a good one, it looked like it could run
Up on its back and away I did ride
Just as fast as I could from the West Texas town of El Paso
Out to the badlands of New Mexico
Back in El Paso my life would be worthless
Everything's gone; in life nothing is left
It's been so long since I've seen the young maiden
My love is stronger than my fear of death
I saddled up and away I did go
Riding alone in the dark
Maybe tomorrow a bullet will find me
Tonight nothing's worse than this pain in my heart
And at last here I am on the hill overlooking El Paso
I can see Rosa's Cantina below
My love is strong and it pushes me onward
Down off the hill to Felina I go
Off to my right I see five mounted cowboys
Off to my left ride a dozen or more
Shouting and shooting, I can't let them catch me
I have to make it to Rosa's back door
Something is dreadfully wrong, for I feel
A deep burning pain in my side
Though I am trying to stay in the saddle
I'm getting weary, unable to ride
But my love for Felina is strong and I rise where I've fallen
Though I am weary, I can't stop to rest
I see the white puff of smoke from the rifle
I feel the bullet go deep in my chest
From out of nowhere Felina has found me
Kissing my cheek as she kneels by my side
Cradled by two loving arms that I'll die for
One little kiss, then Felina good-bye
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Alene
Wayne Garvin
On Sat, 27 Jun 1998 14:47:52 -0700 David P <dap...@ibm.net> wrote:
>Help! I've scoured every link I could find and while International
>Lyrics got me close, their link 'timed out' just before I could get to
>that page.
Maybe you should bookmark this site:
Lyrics World http://www.summer.com.br/~pfilho/summer.html
Top-40 Hits from 1930-1998
EL PASO
Marty Robbins
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I thought maybe some of you might like the "answer" to Marty's ElPaso:
Out in the west Texas town of ElPaso,
I spent a whole week out there in one day.
I looked all over for Rose's canteena,
I think Hernando has hid it away.
I asked the cab driver where's Rosa's canteena?
I'd like to find it 'cause I can't stay long.
He said why don't you go ask Marty Robbins,
'Cause he's the hombre that made up that song.
I heard the cab driver holler Ho-Lay....
Come to Velveeta's Cafe.......
They have Concheetas who shake the maracas,
Over the bridge that they call Santa Fe.
So away, we went out in the traffic and over the river.
I asked the cab driver why all the rush?
Why do you follow that front cab so closley,
He said we have to 'cause he's towin us.
Velveeta's cafe had standing room only.
Wall to wall drunks all the way to the street.
I looked around for a plalce I could sit down.
A lady got up then and I took her seat.
Soon I felt single tho I could see double.
Drinking Tequila and feeling so grand.
Started to leave then but got into trouble.
Just then a drunk stepped on top of my hand.
I seen Velveeta's eyes lookin at me.
Bloodshot and shinging with scorn........
I asked her where have you been all my life?
She answered most of it I wasn't born.
So in anger, I got out of there like a mad herd of Turtles,
Over the river and back to my car.
Good bye to Juaraze and good bye ElPaso.
Good buy to Rosa wherever you are.
Glenn Grant
Hmmm... what was Marty's followup song to this... I think it was titled El
Paso City ??
Anyone got em ??
TIA.... Glenn
Fargo wrote:
> David P wrote in message <35956887...@ibm.net>...
> >Help! I've scoured every link I could find and while International
> >Lyrics got me close, their link 'timed out' just before I could get to
> >that page.
Fargo
Glenn Grant wrote in message <35978880...@sprint.ca>...
>Hmmm... what was Marty's followup song to this... I think it was titled El
>Paso City ??
>
>Anyone got em ??
>
>TIA.... Glenn
Okay, Glenn. Here is "El Paso City" and just in case you didn't know about
it, "Feleena" follows:
EL PASO CITY
Words and music by Marty Robbins
From thirty thousand feet above
The desert floor, I see it there below
A city with a legend
The west Texas city of El Paso
Where long ago I heard a song
About a Texas cowboy and a girl
And a little place called Rosa's
Where he used to go and watch this beauty whirl.
I don't recall who sang the song
But I recall the story that I heard
And as I look down on the city
I remember each and ev'ry word
The singer sang about a jealous cowboy
And the way he used a gun
To kill another cowboy
Then he had to leave El Paso on the run.
El Paso Cit-y, by the Rio Grand-e
The cowboy lived and rode away
But love was strong he couldn't stay
He rode back just to die in that El Paso sand
El Paso Cit-y, by the Rio Grand-e
I try not to let you cross my mind
But still I find there's such a mystery
In the song that I don't understand.
My mind is down there somewhere
As I fly above the badlands of New Mexico
I can't explain why I should know
The very trail he rode back to El Paso
Can it be that man can disappear
From life and live another time
And does the mystery deepen 'cause you think
That you yourself lived in that other time.
Somewhere in my deepest thoughts
Familar scenes and memories unfold
These wild and unexplained emotions
That I've had so long but I have never told
Like every time I fly up thru the heavens
And I see you there below
I get the feeling sometime
In another world I lived in El Paso.
El Paso Cit-y, by the Rio Grand-e
Could it be that I could be
The cowboy in this mystery
That died there in that desert sand so long ago
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FELEENA (FROM EL PASO)
Words and music by Marty Robbins
Out in New Mexico, many long years ago
There in a shack on the desert, one night in a storm
Amid streaks of lightnin' and loud desert thunder
To a young Mexican couple, a baby was born;
Just as the baby cried, thunder and lightnin' died
Moon gave it's light to the world and the stars did the same
Mother and Father, both proud of the daughter
That heaven had sent them, Feleena was this baby's name.
When she was seventeen, bothered by crazy dreams
She ran away from the shack and left them to roam
Father and Mother, both asked one another
What made her run away, what made Feleena leave home;
Tired of the desert nights, fartherly grieved to strife
She ran away late one night in the moon's golden gleam
She didn't know where she'd go, but she'd get there
And she would find happiness, if she would follow her dream.
After she ran away, she went to Sante Fe
And in the year that she stayed there, she learned about life
In just a little while, she learned that with a smile
She could have pretty clothes, she could be any man's wife;
Rich men romanced her, they dined and they danced her
She understood men and she treated them all just the same
A form that was fine and rare, dark shining glossy hair
Lovely to look at Feleena was this woman's name.
Restless in Sante Fe, she had to get away
To any town where the lights had a much brighter glow
One cowboy mentioned the town of El Paso
They never stopped dancin' and money like whiskey did flow;
She bought a one-way, a ticket from Sante Fe
Three days and nights on a stage with a rest now and then
She didn't mind that, she knew she would find that
Her new life would be more exciting than where she had been.
The stage made it's last stop, up there on the mountain top
To let her see all of the lights at the foot of the hill
Her world was brighter and deep down inside her
An uncontrolled beating, her young heart just wouldn't be still;
She got a hotel, a room at the Lily Belle
Quickly she changed to a form-fitting black satin dress
Ev'ry man stopped to stare, at this form fine and rare
Even the women remarked of the charm she possessed.
Dancin' and laughter, was what she was after
And Rosa's Cantina had lights, with love in the gleam
That's what she hunted and that's what she wanted
Rosa's was one place, a nice girl would never be seen;
It was the same way, it was back in Sante Fe
Men would make fools of themselves at the thought of romance
Rosa took heed of, the place was in need of
This kind of excitement, so she paid Feleena to dance.
A year passed and maybe more and then through the swingin' doors
Came a young cowboy so tall and so handsomely dressed
This one was new in town, hadn't been seen around
He was so different, he wasn't like all of the rest;
Feleena danced close to him, then threw a rose to him
Quickly he walked to her table and there he sat down
And in a day or so, wherever folks would go
They'd see this young cowboy, showin' Feelena the town.
Six weeks he went with her, each minute spent with her
But he was insanely jealous of glances she'd give
Inside he was a-hurtin', from all of her flirtin'
That was her nature and that was the way that she lived;
She flirted one night, it started a gun-fight
And after the smoke cleared away, on the floor lay a man
Feleena's young lover, had shot down another
And he had to leave there, so out through the back door he ran.
The next day at five o'clock, she heard a rifle shot
Quickly she ran to the door, that was facin' the pass
She saw her cowboy, her wild-ridin' cowboy
Low in the saddle, her cowboy was ridin' in fast;
She ran to meet him, to kiss and to greet him
He saw her and motioned her back, with a wave of his hand
Bullets were flyin', Feleena was cryin'
As she saw him fall from the saddle and into the sand.
Feleena knelt near him, to hold and to hear him
When she felt the warm blood that flowed from the wound in his side
He raised to kiss her and she heard him whisper
"Never forget me - Faleena it's over, goodbye."
Quickly she grabbed for, the six-gun that he wore
And screamin' in anger and placin' the gun to her breast
Bury us both deep and maybe we'll find peace
And pullin' the trigger, she fell 'cross the dead cowboy's chest.
Out in El Paso, whenever the wind blows
If you listen closely at night, you'll hear in the wind
A woman is cryin', it's not the wind sighin'
Old timer's tell you, Feleena is callin' for him;
You'll hear them talkin' and you'll hear them walkin'
You'll hear them laugh and you'll look, but there's no one around
Don't be alarmed - there is really no harm there
It's only the young cowboy, showin' Feleena the town.
Loudon Briggs
Glenn Grant <ggr...@sprint.ca> wrote:
>Hmmm... what was Marty's followup song to this... I think it was titled El
>Paso City ??
>
>Anyone got em ??
>
>TIA.... Glenn
>
>Fargo wrote:(CLIP)
I had an old 45 that was a takeoff on El Paso... it was called El
Pizza and it was hilarious... my daughter still has it.
>
--
Loudon Briggs lar...@bbz.net Phoenix, Arizona, USA)