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EL PASO CITY |
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(written and performed by Marty Robbins) |
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from the from the 1976 Columbia LP EL PASO CITY, KC 34303 |
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From thirty thousand feet above the desert floor I see it there below |
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A city with a legend, the West Texas city of El Paso |
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Where long ago I heard a song about a Texas cowboy and a girl |
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And a little place called Rosa's where he used to go and watch this beauty whirl |
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I don't recall who sang the song but I recall a story that I heard |
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And as I look down on this city I remember each and every word |
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The singer sang about a jealous cowboy and the way he used a gun |
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To kill another cowboy, then he had to leave El Paso on the run |
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El Paso City |
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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 |
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By the Rio Grande |
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I try not to let you cross my mind but still I find |
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There's such a mystery in the song that I don't understand |
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My mind is down there somewhere as I fly above the badlands of New Mexico |
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I can't explain why I should know the very trail he rode back to El Paso |
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Can it be that man can disappear from life and live another time |
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And does the mystery deepen 'cause you think that you yourself lived in that other time |
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Somewhere in my deepest thoughts familiar scenes and memories unfold |
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These wild and unexplained emotions that I've had so long, but I have never told |
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Like everytime I fly up through the heavens and I see you there below |
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I get the feeling sometime in another world I lived in El Paso |
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El Paso City |
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By the Rio Grande |
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Could it be that I could be the cowboy in the mystery |
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That died there in that desert sand so long ago |
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El Paso City |
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By the Rio Grande |
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A voice tells me to go and seek, another voice keeps telling me |
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Maybe death awaits me in El Paso |
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El Paso City |
