Faleena (from El Paso) Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[G][D][A]
[D]

[Verse 1]
[D]Out in New Mexico,
many long years ago
There in a shack on the desert,
one night in a [A]storm
Amid streaks of lightnin'
and loud desert thunder
To a young Mexican couple,
a baby was [D]born
Just as the baby cried,
thunder and lightnin' died
Moon gave it's light to the world
and the stars did the [G]same
Mother and Father,
both proud [D]of the daughter
That heaven had sent them,
[A]Faleena was this baby's nam[D]e

[Verse 2]
[D]
When she was seventeen,
bothered by crazy dreams
She ran away from the shack
and left them to [A]roam
Father and Mother,
both asked one another
What made her run away,
what made Faleena leave [D]home
Tired of the desert nights,
poverty, grief and strife
She ran away late one night in
the moon's golden [G]gleam
She didn't know where she'd go,
[D]but she'd get there
And she would find happiness,
[A]if she would follow her dream
[D]

[Verse 3]
After she ran away, she went to Sante Fe
And in the year that she stayed there,
she learned [A]about life
In just a little while,
she learned that with a smile
She could have pretty clothes,
she could be any [D]man's wife
Rich men romanced her,
they dined and they danced her
She understood men and she
treated them all just [G]the same
A form that was fine and rare,
[D]dark shining glossy hair
Lovely to look [A]at Faleena was
this woman's [D]name

[Verse 4]
[D]Restless in Sante Fe, she had to get away
To any town where the lights
had a much brighter [A]glow
One cowboy mentioned
the town of El Paso
They never stopped dancin'
and money like whiskey [D]did flow
She bought a one-way,
a a ticket from Sante Fe
Three days and nights on a stage
with a rest now and [G]then
She didn't mind that,
she [D]knew she would find that
Her new life would be more ex[A]citing
than where [D]she had been

[Verse 5]
[D]The stage made it's last stop,
up there on the mountain top
To let her see all of the lights
at the foot of the [A]hill
Her world was brighter and deep
down inside her
An uncontrolled beating,
her young heart just wouldn't [D]be still
She got a hotel, a room at the Lily Belle
Quickly she changed to a form-fitting
black black satin [G]dress
Ev'ry man stopped to stare,
[D]at this form fine and rare
Even the women re[A]marked of
the charm she pos[D]sessed

[Verse 6]
[D]Dancin' and laughter,
was what she was after
And Rosa's Cantina had lights,
with love in [A]the gleam
That's what she hunted and
that's what she wanted
Rosa's was one place,
a nice girl would never [D]be seen
It was the same way,
it was back in Sante Fe
Men would make fools of themselves
at the thought of ro[G]mance
Rosa took heed of,
[D]the place was in need of
This kind of excitement,
so [A]she paid Faleena to dance
[D]

[Verse 7]
A year passed and maybe more and
then through the swingin' doors
Came a young cowboy so tall
and so handsomely [A]dressed
This one was new in town,
hadn't been seen around
He was so different,
he wasn't like all of [D]the rest
Faleena danced close to him,
then threw a rose to him
Quickly he walked to her table
and there he sat [G]down
And in a day or so,
[D]wherever folks would go
They'd see this young cowboy,
[A]showin' [D]Faleena the town

[Verse 8]
[D]Six weeks he went with her,
each minute spent with her
But he was insanely jealous
of glances she'd [A]give
Inside he was a-hurtin', from
from all of her flirtin'
That was her nature and that
was the way that she [D]lived
She flirted one night, it started a gun-fight
And And after the smoke cleared away,
on the floor lay [G]a man
Faleena's young lover,
had [D]shot down another
And he had to leave there,
so [A]out through the back [D]door he ran

[Verse 9]
[D]The next day at five o'clock,
she heard a rifle shot
Quickly she ran to the door,
that was facin' the [A]pass
She saw her cowboy,
her wild-ridin' cowboy
cowboy
Low in the saddle,
her cowboy was ridin' in [D]fast
She ran to meet him,
to kiss and to greet him
He saw her and motioned her back,
with a wave of his [G]hand
Bullets [D]were flyin', Faleena was cryin'
As she saw him fall from [A]the saddle
and into the sand
[D]

[Verse 10]
Faleena knelt near him,
to hold and to hear him
When she felt the warm blood that
flowed from the wound in [A]his side
He raised to kiss her and she
heard him whisper
"Never forget me, Faleena it's over,
[D]goodbye."
Quickly she grabbed for,
the six-gun that that he wore
And screamin' in anger and placin'
the gun to [G]her breast
Bury us both deep and [D]maybe
we'll find peace
And pullin' the trigger,
she [A]fell 'cross the dead cowboy's [D]chest

[Verse 11]
[D]Out in El Paso, whenever the wind blows
If you listen closely at night,
you'll hear in [A]the wind
A woman is cryin',
it's not the wind sighin'
Old timer's tell you,
Faleena is callin' for [D]him
You'll hear them talkin' and
you'll hear them walkin'
You'll hear them laugh and you'll look,
but there's no one [G]around
Don't be alarmed,
there is [D]really no harm there
It's only the young cowboy,
[A]showin' [D]Faleena the tow[D]n