Feleena (From El Paso) Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[A][E][B][E]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Verse 11]
[E]Out in El Paso,
whenever the wind blows
If you listen closely at night,
you'll hear in the [B]wind
A woman is cryin',
it's not the wind sighin'
Old- timers tell you,
Feleena is callin' for [E]him
[E]You'll hear them talkin'
and you'll hear them walkin'
You'll hear them laugh and you'll [E]look,
but there's no one a[A]round
Don't be alarmed,
there is [E]really no harm there
It's only the young cowboy,
[B]showin' Feleena the [E]town