Out in New Mexico, long years ago There in a shack on the desert, one night in a Amid streaks of lightnin' and desert thunder To a young Mexican couple, a was born
Just as the cried, thunder and lightnin' died Moon it's light to the world and the stars did the same Mother and father, both proud of the That had sent them, Feleena was this baby's name
When she was seventeen, by crazy dreams She ran away from the shack and left them to Father and mother, both one another What made her run away, what Feleena leave home
Tired of the desert nights, fatherly grieved to She ran away late one night in the moon's golden She know where she'd go but she'd get there And she would find happiness if she would her dream
she ran away, she went to Santa Fe And in the year that she there, she learned about life In just a little while she learned that a smile She could pretty clothes, she could be any man's wife
Rich men romanced her, they and they danced her She men and she treated them all just the same A form was fine and rare, dark shining glossy hair Lovely to look at, Feleena was this name
Restless in Fe, she had to get away To any town where the lights had a much brighter One cowboy mentioned the town of El They never stopped dancin' and money like whiskey flow
She bought one way a ticket from Fe days and nights on a stage with a rest now and then She didn't mind she knew she would find that Her new life would be more exciting than where she had
The stage it's last stop, up there on the mountain top To let her see all the at the foot of the hill Her world was brighter and down inside her An uncontrolled her young heart just wouldn't be still
She got a hotel room at the Lily Quickly she changed to a form fitting black dress Every man to stare, at this form fine and rare the women remarked of the charm she possessed
Dancin' and laughter, was she was after And Rosa's Cantina had with love in the gleam That's what she and that's what she wanted Rosa's was one place, a girl would never be seen
It was the way, it was back in Santa Fe Men would make fools of at the thought of romance Rosa took of the place was in need of kind of excitement, so she paid Feleena to dance
A year passed and maybe and then through the swingin' doors a young cowboy so tall and so handsomely dressed This one was new in town, been seen around He was so different, he wasn't like all of the
Feleena danced close to him, then a rose to him he walked to her table and there he sat down And in a day or so, wherever would go They'd see this young cowboy, showin' the town
Six weeks he went her, each minute spent with her But he was insanely jealous of she'd give Inside he was a hurtin', all of her flirtin' That was her nature and that was the way that she
She flirted one night, it started a gun And the smoke cleared away on the floor lay a man Feleena's young lover had down another And he had to leave there, so out the back door he ran
The next day at five o'clock, she heart a shot Quickly she ran to the door was facin' the pass She saw her cowboy, her wild ridin' Low in the saddle, her cowboy was ridin' in
She ran to him to kiss and to greet him He saw her and her back with a wave of his hand Bullets were flyin', was cryin' As she saw him fall the saddle and into the sand
Feleena knelt near him to hold and to him she felt the warm blood that flowed from the wound in his side He raised to kiss her and she him whisper "Never forget me, Feleena over, goodbye"
Quickly she grabbed for the six gun he wore And screamin' in anger and the gun to her breast us both deep and maybe we'll find peace And the trigger, she fell 'cross the dead cowboy's chest
Out in El Paso, the wind blows If you listen at night, you'll hear in the wind A woman is cryin', it's not the sighin' Old tell you, Feleena is callin' for him
You'll hear them talkin' and you'll them walkin' You'll hear laugh and you'll look but there's no one around Don't be alarmed, there is really no harm It's only the cowboy, showin' Feleena the town