Feleena (From El Paso) chords by Marty Robbins
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Verse 1
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Out in New Mexico,
many long years ago
There in a shack on the desert,
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one night in a storm
Amid streaks of lightnin'
and loud desert thunder
To a young Mexican couple,
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a baby was born
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Just as the baby cried,
thunder and lightnin' died
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Moon gave its light to the world
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and the stars did the same
Mother and Father,
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both proud of the daughter
That heaven had sent them,
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Feleena was this baby's name
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Verse 2
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When she was seventeen,
bothered by crazy dreams
She ran away from the shack
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and left them to roam
Father and Mother,
both asked one another
What made her run away,
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what made Feleena leave home?
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Tired of the desert nights,
poverty, grief, and strife
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She went her way late one night
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in the moon's golden gleam
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She didn't know where she'd go,
but she'd get there
And she would find happiness,
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if she would follow her dream
Verse 3
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After she ran away,
she went to Santa Fe
And in the year that she stayed there,
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she learned about life
In just a little while,
she learned that with a smile
She could have pretty clothes,
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she could be any man's wife
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Rich men romanced her,
they dined and they danced her
She understood men
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and she treated them all just the same
A form that was fine and rare,
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dark shining glossy hair
Lovely to look at
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Feleena was this woman's name
Verse 4
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Restless in Santa Fe,
she had to get away
To any town where the lights
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had a much brighter glow
One cowboy mentioned
the town of El Paso
They never stopped dancin'
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and money like whiskey did flow
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She bought a one-way,
a ticket from Santa Fe
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Three days and nights on a stage
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with a rest now and then
She didn't mind that,
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she knew she would find that
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Her new life would be more exciting
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than where she had been
Verse 5
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The stage made its last stop,
up there on the mountaintop
And let her see all of the lights
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at the foot of the hill
Her world was brighter
and deep down inside her
An uncontrolled beating,
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her young heart just wouldn't be still
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She got a hotel,
a room at the Lily Belle
Quickly she changed
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to a form-fitting black satin dress
Ev'ry man stopped to stare
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at this form fine and rare
Even the women
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remarked of the charm she possessed
Verse 6
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Dancin' and laughter
was what she was after
And Rosa's Cantina had lights,
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with love in the gleam
That's what she hunted
and that's what she wanted
Rosa's was one place,
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a nice girl would never be seen
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It was the same way it was back in Santa Fe
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Men would make fools of themselves
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at the thought of romance
Rosa took heed of,
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the place was in need of
This kind of excitement,
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so she paid Feleena to dance
Verse 7
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A year passed and maybe more
and then through the swingin' doors
Came a young cowboy so tall
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and so handsomely dressed
This one was new in town,
hadn't been seen around
He was so different,
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he wasn't like all of the rest
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Feleena danced close to him,
then threw a rose to him
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Quickly he walked to her table
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and there he sat down
And in a day or so,
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wherever folks would go
They'd see this young cowboy,
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showin' Feleena the town
Verse 8
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Six weeks he went with her,
each minute spent with her
But he was insanely jealous
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of glances she'd give
Inside he was a-hurtin',
from all of her flirtin'
That was her nature
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and that was the way that she lived
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She flirted one night,
it started a gun-fight
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And after the smoke cleared away
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on the floor lay a man
Feleena's young lover
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had shot down another
And he had to leave there,
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so out through the back door he ran
Verse 9
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The next day at five o'clock,
she heard a rifle shot
Quickly she ran to the door,
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that was facin' the pass
She saw her cowboy,
her wild-ridin' cowboy
Low in the saddle,
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her cowboy was ridin' in fast
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She ran to meet him,
to kiss and to greet him him
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He saw her and motioned her back,
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with a wave of his hand
Bullets were flyin',
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Feleena was cryin'
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As she saw him fall from the saddle
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and into the sand
Verse 10
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Faleena knelt near him,
to hold and to hear him
When she felt the warm blood
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that flowed from the wound in his side
He raised to kiss her
and she heard him whisper
"Never forget me
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Faleena, it's over, goodbye"
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Quickly she grabbed for
the six-gun that he wore
And screamin' in anger
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and placin' the gun to her breast
"Bury us both deep
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and maybe we'll find peace"
And pullin' the trigger,
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she fell 'cross the dead cowboy's chest
Verse 11
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Out in El Paso,
whenever the wind blows
If you listen closely at night,
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you'll hear in the wind
A woman is cryin',
it's not the wind sighin'
Old- timers tell you,
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Feleena is callin' for him
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You'll hear them talkin'
and you'll hear them walkin'
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You'll hear them laugh and you'll look,
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but there's no one around
Don't be alarmed,
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there is really no harm there
It's only the young cowboy,
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showin' Feleena the town
Feleena (From El Paso)
Marty Robbins
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