Out in New Mexico, many long ago in a shack on the desert, one night in a storm Amid streaks of lightnin' and loud desert To a Mexican couple, a baby was born
Just as the baby cried, and lightnin' died Moon gave it's light to the and the stars did the same and father, both proud of the daughter That Heaven had sent them, Feleena was baby's name
she was seventeen, bothered by crazy dreams She ran away from the shack and left to roam Father and mother, both one another What made her run away, what made leave home
Tired of the desert nights, fatherly grieved to 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 while she learned with a smile She could have pretty clothes, she be any man's wife
Rich men romanced her, they and they danced her She understood men and she them all just the same A form that was fine and rare, dark shining hair to look at, Feleena was this woman's name
Restless in Santa Fe, she had to get To any where the lights had a much brighter glow One cowboy mentioned the of El Paso They never dancin' and money like whiskey would flow
She bought one way a ticket from Fe Three days and on a stage with a rest now and then She mind that she knew she would find that Her new would be more exciting than where she had been
The stage made it's last stop, up on the mountain top To let her see all the lights at the of the hill Her world was brighter and down inside her An uncontrolled beating her young just wouldn't be still
She got a hotel room at the Belle she changed to a form fitting black satin dress Every man stopped to stare, at form fine and rare Even the women remarked of the she possessed
Dancin' and laughter, was what she was And Rosa's Cantina had with love in the gleam That's she hunted and that's what she wanted Rosa's was one place, a nice girl would never be
It was the same way, it was back in Fe Men make fools of themselves at the thought of romance Rosa took heed of the place was in of This kind of excitement, so she paid to dance
A year passed and maybe more and through the swingin' doors Came a young so tall and so handsomely dressed one was new in town, hadn't 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, wherever folks go They'd see young cowboy, showin' Feleena the town
Six weeks he went with her, each minute spent her But he was insanely of glances she'd give he was a hurtin', from all of her flirtin' That was her nature and that was the way that she
She one night, it started a gun fight And after the cleared away on the floor lay a man young lover 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 heart a shot Quickly she ran to the door that was the pass She saw her cowboy, her wild ridin' 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 wave of his Bullets flyin', Feleena was cryin' As she saw him fall from the and into the sand
knelt near him to hold and to hear him When she felt the blood that flowed from the wound in his side He to kiss her and she heard him whisper "Never forget me, Feleena over, goodbye"
Quickly she grabbed for the six gun that he And screamin' in anger and placin' the gun to her Bury us both deep and maybe find peace And pullin' the trigger, she fell 'cross the cowboy's chest
Out in El Paso, whenever the blows If you listen closely at night, hear in the wind A woman is cryin', not the wind sighin' Old tell you, Feleena is callin' for him
You'll hear them talkin' and hear them walkin' You'll hear them laugh and you'll look but no one around Don't be alarmed, there is no harm there It's only the cowboy, showin' Feleena the town