Marty Robbins – El Paso City (Guitar)

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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 the story that I heard

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And as I look down on the 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, by the Rio Grande

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The cowboy lived and rode away

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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

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But still I find 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 every time I fly up thru 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, 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

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Maybe death awaits me in El Paso

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El Paso City....