El Paso City Marty Robbins
From thirty thousand feet
above the desert floor
I see it there below
A city with the 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 Rose'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 every 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 City by the Rio Grande
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 City by the Rio Grande
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 familiar scenes
and memories unfold
These wild and unexplained
emotions that I've had
so long but I have never told
Like everytime
I fly up through the heavens
and I see you there below
I get the feelin' sometime
in another world
I lived in El Paso
El Paso City by the Rio Grande
Could it be that
I could be the cowboy
in this mystery
That died there in that desert
sand so long ago
El Paso City by the Rio Grande
A voice tells me to go
and seek another voice
keeps tellin' me
Maybe death awaits me
in El Paso
El Paso City