El Paso City
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1. From thirty thousand feet above
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the
desert floor, I see it there below,
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a
city with a legend,
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the
west Texas city of El Paso.
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Where long ago I heard a song
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about
a Texas cowboy and a girl,
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and a
little place called Rosa's,
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where
he used to go and watch this beauty whirl.
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2. I don't recall who sang the song,
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but I
recall the story that I heard,
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and
as I look down on the city
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I remember each and every word.
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The singer sang about a
jealous cowboy
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and
the way he used a gun,
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To kill another cowboy,
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then
he had to leave El Paso on the run.
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El Paso City by the Rio Grande,
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the cowboy lived and rode away, but
love was strong he couldn't stay,
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he rode back just to die in that
El Paso sand.
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El Paso City by the Rio Grande,
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I try not to let you cross my mind, but still I find there's just a
mystery
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in the song that I don't
understand.
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3. My mind is down there somewhere,
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as I
fly above the badlands of New Mexico.
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I can't explain why I should
know
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the
very trail he rode back to El Paso.
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Can it be that man can disappear
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from
life and live another time ?
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And does the mystery deepen,
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‘cause
you think that you yourself lived in that other time.
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4. Somewhere in my deepest thoughts
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familiar
scenes and memories unfold,
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these
wild and unexplained emotions
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that
I've had so long, but I have never told.
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Like every time I fly up
through the heavens,
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and I
see you there below,
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I get the feeling sometime
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in
another world I lived in El Paso.
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El Paso City by the Rio Grande,
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could it be that I could be the
cowboy in this mystery,
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that died there in that desert
sand so long ago.
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El Paso City by the Rio Grande,
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a voice tells me to go and see another
voice keeps telling me,
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maybe death awaits me in El Paso.
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El Paso City.
(Marty Robbins)