Out in New Mexico, many long ago There in a shack on the desert, one in a storm Amid streaks of and loud desert thunder To a young couple, a baby was born
Just as the baby cried, and lightnin' died Moon it's light to the world and the stars did the same Mother and father, proud of the daughter That Heaven had sent them, Feleena was this name
she was seventeen, bothered by crazy dreams She ran from the shack and left them to roam Father and mother, asked one another What her run away, what made Feleena leave home
Tired of the nights, fatherly grieved to strife She ran away late one in the moon's golden gleam She didn't where she'd go but she'd get there And she would find happiness if she follow her dream
she ran away, she went to Santa Fe And in the year that she stayed there, she learned about In just a little while she learned that a smile She could have pretty clothes, she be any man's wife
Rich men romanced her, they dined and they her She understood men and she treated them all just the A form that was fine and rare, dark shining hair Lovely to look at, was this woman's name
in Santa Fe, she had to get away To any town where the lights had a brighter glow One cowboy mentioned the of El Paso They never stopped dancin' and money like whiskey flow
She bought one way a ticket from Fe Three days and nights on a with a rest now and then She didn't mind that she she would find that Her new life would be more exciting than she had been
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 was brighter and deep down inside her An uncontrolled beating her heart just wouldn't be still
She got a hotel room at the Lily Quickly she changed to a form fitting black satin Every man stopped to stare, at this form fine and Even the women remarked of the charm she
and laughter, was what she was after And Cantina had lights with love in the gleam That's what she hunted and that's 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 fools of themselves at the thought 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 the swingin' doors Came a cowboy so tall and so handsomely dressed This one was new in town, hadn't been seen He was so different, he wasn't all of the rest
Feleena danced to him, then threw a rose to him Quickly he walked to her table and he sat down And in a day or so, wherever would go see this young cowboy, showin' Feleena the town
Six weeks he with her, each minute spent with her But he was jealous of glances she'd give Inside he was a hurtin', all of her flirtin' was her nature and that was the way that she lived
She flirted one night, it a gun fight And after the smoke cleared on the floor lay a man Feleena's young had shot down another And he had to leave there, so out the back door he ran
The next day at five o'clock, she a rifle shot Quickly she ran to the that was facin' the pass She saw her cowboy, her wild cowboy Low in the saddle, her cowboy was ridin' in
She ran to meet him to kiss and to him He saw her and motioned her with a wave of his hand were flyin', Feleena was cryin' As she saw him from the saddle and into the sand
Feleena knelt near him to hold and to him When she felt the warm blood that from the wound in his side He raised to kiss her and she heard him "Never me, Feleena it's over, goodbye"
she grabbed for the six gun that he wore And in anger and placin' 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, whenever the wind If you closely at night, you'll hear in the wind A woman is cryin', it's not the sighin' Old timer's tell you, Feleena is for him
hear them talkin' and you'll hear them walkin' You'll hear them laugh and you'll but there's no one around Don't be alarmed, there is really no harm It's the young cowboy, showin' Feleena the town