Out in New Mexico, many long ago in a shack on the desert, one night in a storm Amid of lightnin' and loud desert thunder To a Mexican couple, a baby was born
Just as the baby cried, thunder and lightnin' Moon gave it's light to the world and the stars did the Mother and father, both of the daughter That Heaven had sent them, Feleena was this name
When she was seventeen, by crazy dreams She ran away from the shack and left to roam Father and mother, asked one another What made her run away, what made leave home
Tired of the desert nights, fatherly grieved to She ran late one night 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 that she stayed there, she learned about life In just a while she learned that with a smile She could have clothes, she could be any man's wife
Rich men her, they dined and they danced her She understood men and she treated them all the same A form that was and rare, dark shining glossy hair Lovely to look at, was this woman's 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 stopped dancin' and money like whiskey flow
She bought one way a ticket Santa Fe Three days and nights on a stage a rest now and then She mind that she knew she would find that Her new life would be more exciting than she had been
The stage made it's last stop, up there on the top To let her see all the at the foot of the hill Her world was brighter and deep down her An uncontrolled beating her young heart just be still
She got a hotel room at the Belle 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 she possessed
Dancin' and laughter, was what she was And Rosa's Cantina had with love in the gleam That's what she and that's what she wanted Rosa's was one place, a nice girl never be seen
It was the same way, it was back in Fe Men would make of themselves at the thought of romance Rosa heed of the place was in need of This kind of excitement, so she Feleena to dance
A year passed and maybe more and through the swingin' doors Came a young cowboy so tall and so dressed This one was new in town, hadn't seen around He was so different, he like all of the rest
danced close to him, then threw a rose to him Quickly he to her table and there he sat down And in a day or so, wherever would go They'd see this cowboy, showin' Feleena the town
Six weeks he went with her, each minute with her But he was jealous of glances she'd give Inside he was a hurtin', all of her flirtin' That was her nature and was the way that she lived
She flirted one night, it a gun fight And the smoke cleared away on the floor lay a man Feleena's young lover had 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 she ran to the door that was facin' the pass She saw her cowboy, her wild cowboy Low in the saddle, her was ridin' in fast
She ran to him to kiss and to greet him He saw her and motioned her back a wave of his hand Bullets were flyin', was cryin' As she saw him fall 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 her and she heard him whisper "Never forget me, it's over, goodbye"
Quickly she grabbed for the six gun that he And in anger and placin' the gun to her breast 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, you'll in the wind A woman is cryin', it's not the wind Old timer's tell you, Feleena is for him
You'll them talkin' and you'll 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 there only the young cowboy, showin' Feleena the town