Out in New Mexico, long years ago There in a shack on the desert, one night in a streaks of lightnin' and loud desert thunder To a young Mexican couple, a baby was
Just as the baby cried, and lightnin' died Moon gave light to the world and the stars did the same and father, both proud of the daughter That Heaven had sent them, Feleena was baby's name
When she was seventeen, bothered by dreams She ran away from the shack and them to roam Father and mother, asked one another What made her run away, what Feleena leave home
Tired of the nights, fatherly grieved to strife She ran away one night in the moon's golden gleam She didn't know she'd go but she'd get there And she would find happiness if she follow her dream
After she ran away, she to Santa Fe And in the year that she there, she learned about life In just a while she learned that with a smile She could have pretty clothes, she be any man's wife
Rich men romanced her, dined and they danced her She understood men and she treated all just the same A form that was fine and rare, dark shining glossy 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 much brighter One cowboy mentioned the of El Paso They never stopped 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 would be exciting than where she had been
The stage made last stop, up there on the mountain top To let her see all the at the foot of the hill Her world was and deep down inside her An uncontrolled beating her young heart wouldn't be still
She got a room at the Lily Belle Quickly she changed to a fitting black satin dress Every man stopped to stare, at this form fine and Even the women remarked of the charm she
Dancin' and laughter, was she was after And Cantina had lights with love in the gleam That's what she and that's what she wanted Rosa's was one place, a nice girl would 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 Feleena 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 like all of the
Feleena danced close to him, then threw a to him Quickly he walked to her table and there he sat And in a day or so, folks would go They'd see this young cowboy, Feleena the town
Six weeks he went with her, minute spent with her But he was jealous of glances she'd give he was a hurtin', from all of her flirtin' That was her nature and that was the way she lived
She flirted one night, it started a gun And after the smoke away on the floor lay a man Feleena's young lover had down another And he had to there, so out through the back door 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 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 back a wave of his hand Bullets flyin', Feleena was cryin' As she saw him from the saddle and into the sand
Feleena knelt near him to and to hear him When she the warm blood that flowed from the wound in his side He raised to kiss her and she heard him "Never forget me, it's over, goodbye"
Quickly she grabbed for the six gun he wore And screamin' in anger and placin' the gun to her us both deep and maybe we'll find peace And pullin' the trigger, she fell 'cross the cowboy's chest
Out in El Paso, the wind blows If you closely at night, you'll hear in the wind A is cryin', it's not the wind sighin' Old timer's tell you, is callin' for him
You'll hear talkin' and you'll hear them walkin' You'll hear them laugh and you'll look but no one around Don't be alarmed, there is really no harm It's only the young cowboy, showin' the town