Out in New Mexico, long years ago There in a on the desert, one night in a storm Amid of lightnin' and loud desert thunder To a young couple, a baby was born
Just as the baby cried, thunder and died Moon gave it's light to the and the stars did the same 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, both asked one What made her run away, what made Feleena leave
of the desert nights, fatherly grieved to strife She ran late 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 would her dream
After she ran away, she went to Fe And in the year that she there, she learned about life In just a little while she that with a smile She could have clothes, she could be any man's wife
Rich men romanced her, dined and they danced her She understood men and she them all just the same A form that was and rare, dark shining glossy hair Lovely to look at, Feleena was this woman's
in Santa Fe, she had to get away To any town where the lights had a much brighter One cowboy the town of El Paso They never stopped dancin' and money like whiskey flow
She bought one way a ticket from Fe days and nights on a stage with a rest now and then She mind that she knew she would find that Her new life would be exciting than where she had been
The stage made it's last stop, up there on the top To let her see all the lights at the foot of the Her was brighter and deep down inside her An beating her young heart just wouldn't be still
She got a room at the Lily 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
and laughter, was what she was after And Rosa's had lights with love in the gleam That's what she hunted and that's 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 took heed of the place was in need of This of excitement, so she paid Feleena to dance
A year passed and maybe more and then the swingin' doors Came a young cowboy so and so handsomely dressed This one was new in town, been seen around 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 They'd see this cowboy, showin' Feleena the town
Six weeks he with her, each minute spent with her But he was insanely jealous of she'd give Inside he was a hurtin', from all of her That was her nature and was the way that she lived
She flirted one night, it 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 leave there, so out through the back 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 ridin' Low in the saddle, her cowboy was in fast
She ran to meet him to and to greet him He saw her and motioned her with a wave of his hand Bullets flyin', Feleena was cryin' As she saw him fall the saddle and into the sand
Feleena near him to hold and to hear him When she felt the warm that flowed from the wound in his side He raised to kiss her and she him whisper "Never me, Feleena it's over, goodbye"
Quickly she grabbed for the six gun he wore And screamin' in and placin' the gun to her breast Bury us both deep and maybe we'll 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', it's not the sighin' Old timer's tell you, Feleena is for him
You'll hear them talkin' and you'll 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 only the young cowboy, Feleena the town