Out in New Mexico, many years ago There in a shack on the desert, one night in a Amid streaks of lightnin' and desert thunder To a young Mexican couple, a was born
Just as the baby cried, thunder and lightnin' Moon gave light to the world and the stars did the same Mother and father, proud of the daughter That Heaven had sent them, was this baby's name
When she was seventeen, bothered by dreams She ran away from the shack and left to roam Father and mother, asked one another What made her run away, what made Feleena leave
Tired of the desert nights, grieved to strife She ran away one night 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
After she ran away, she to Santa Fe And in the year that she stayed there, she learned life In just a little while she that with a smile She could have pretty clothes, she could be any wife
Rich men romanced her, they dined and danced her She men and she treated them all just the same A that was fine and rare, dark shining glossy hair Lovely to look at, Feleena was this woman's
Restless in Santa Fe, she had to get To any town where the had a much brighter glow One cowboy the town of El Paso They never stopped dancin' and money like whiskey flow
She bought one way a from Santa Fe days and nights on a stage with a rest now and then She didn't mind that she knew she would that Her new would be more exciting than where she had been
The stage it's last stop, up there on the mountain top To let her see all the lights at the foot of the Her world was brighter and deep down her An uncontrolled beating her young heart just be still
She got a hotel at the Lily Belle Quickly she changed to a form black satin dress Every man stopped to stare, at this form fine and the women remarked of the charm she possessed
Dancin' and laughter, was what she was And Rosa's had lights with love in the gleam That's what she hunted and that's what she Rosa's was one place, a nice girl would be seen
It was the way, it was back in Santa Fe Men would make fools of themselves at the of romance Rosa took of the place was in need of kind of excitement, so she paid Feleena to dance
A year passed and maybe and then through the swingin' doors Came a young cowboy so and so handsomely dressed one was new in town, hadn't been seen around He was so different, he wasn't like all of the
Feleena danced to him, then threw a rose to him Quickly he walked to her and there he sat down And in a day or so, wherever would go They'd see this young cowboy, Feleena the town
Six weeks he with her, each minute spent with her But he was insanely of glances she'd give Inside he was a hurtin', from all of her That was her nature and that was the way that she
She flirted one night, it started a gun And after the smoke cleared 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 Quickly she ran to the door that was facin' the She saw her cowboy, her ridin' 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 with a wave of his were flyin', Feleena was cryin' As she saw him from the saddle and into the sand
Feleena knelt him to hold and to hear him When she felt the warm blood that flowed from the wound in his He raised to her and she heard him whisper "Never forget me, Feleena over, goodbye"
Quickly she for the six gun that he wore And screamin' in anger and the gun to her breast Bury us both deep and we'll find peace And pullin' the trigger, she fell 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', it's not the wind Old timer's tell you, is callin' for him
You'll hear them talkin' and you'll hear walkin' You'll hear them laugh and you'll but there's no one around Don't be alarmed, there is really no there It's only the young cowboy, Feleena the town