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