Out in New Mexico, many long ago There in a shack on the desert, one in a storm Amid streaks of lightnin' and desert thunder To a young couple, a baby was born
Just as the baby cried, and lightnin' died Moon gave it's light to the world and the did the same Mother and father, proud of the daughter That had sent them, Feleena was this baby's name
When she was seventeen, by crazy dreams She ran away the shack and left them to roam Father and mother, both asked one What her run away, what made Feleena leave home
Tired of the desert nights, grieved to strife She ran away late one night in the golden gleam She know where she'd go but she'd get there And she find happiness if she would follow her dream
After she ran away, she to Santa Fe And in the year that she stayed there, she about life In a little while she learned that with a smile She could have pretty clothes, she could be any wife
Rich men romanced her, they and they danced her She men and she treated them all just the same A form that was fine and rare, dark shining glossy Lovely to look at, Feleena was this name
in Santa Fe, she had to get away To any where the lights had a much brighter glow One cowboy mentioned the town of El They never dancin' and money like whiskey would flow
She one way a ticket from Santa Fe Three days and nights on a with a rest now and then She didn't mind that she knew she find that Her new life be more exciting than where she had been
The stage made it's 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 beating her young heart just wouldn't be still
She got a hotel room at the Lily Quickly she to a form fitting black satin dress Every man stopped to stare, at form fine and rare Even the women remarked of the charm she
and laughter, was what she was after And Rosa's Cantina had lights love in the gleam That's what she hunted and what she wanted Rosa's was one place, a nice girl would never be
It was the same way, it was in Santa Fe Men would make fools of themselves at the of romance Rosa took of the place was in need of This of excitement, so she paid Feleena to dance
A passed and maybe more and then through the swingin' doors Came a young cowboy so tall and so handsomely This one was new in town, been seen around He was so different, he like all of the rest
Feleena danced close to him, then threw a to him Quickly he to her table and there he sat down And in a day or so, folks would go They'd see this young cowboy, showin' the town
Six weeks he with her, each minute spent with her But he was insanely of glances she'd give he was a hurtin', from all of her flirtin' That was her and that was the way that she lived
She one night, it started a gun fight And after the smoke away on the floor lay a man Feleena's young had shot down another And he had to there, so out through the back door he ran
The day at five o'clock, she heart a rifle shot she ran to the door that was facin' the pass She saw her cowboy, her ridin' cowboy Low in the saddle, her was ridin' in fast
She ran to meet him to kiss and to him He saw her and her back with a wave of his hand Bullets were flyin', Feleena was As she saw him fall the saddle and into the sand
Feleena knelt him to hold and to hear him When she felt the warm blood that flowed 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 screamin' in anger and placin' the gun to her Bury us both deep and we'll find peace And the trigger, she fell 'cross the dead cowboy's chest
Out in El Paso, whenever the blows If you listen closely at night, you'll hear in the A woman is cryin', not the wind sighin' Old timer's tell you, is callin' for him
You'll hear them talkin' and hear 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 young cowboy, showin' the town