Faleena (Single Version)-Marty Robbins

[ti:Faleena (From El Paso)(Single Version)] [ar:Marty Robbins] [al:Playlist: The Very Best Of Marty Robbins] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Faleena (Single Version) (From El Paso) - Marty Robbins [00:08.15]Out in New Mexico many long years ago [00:11.83]There in a shack on the desert one night in a storm [00:17.52] [00:19.30]Amid streaks of lightning and loud desert thunder [00:23.05]To a young Mexican couple a baby was born [00:28.35] [00:30.57]Just as the baby cried thunder and lightning died [00:34.23]Moon gave it's light to the world [00:36.32]And the stars did the same [00:40.79] [00:41.71]Mother and father both proud of the daughter [00:45.26]That heaven had sent them [00:47.30]Felena was this baby's name [00:50.80] [00:53.18]When she was seventeen bothered by crazy dreams [00:56.87]She ran away from the shack and left them to roam [01:02.89] [01:04.23]Father and mother both asked one another [01:07.17] [01:07.83]What made her run away [01:09.72]What made Felena leave home [01:13.83] [01:15.38]Tired of the desert nights fartherly grieved to strife [01:19.00]She ran away late one night [01:21.15]In the moon's golden beam [01:25.38] [01:26.42]She didn't know where she'd go [01:28.66]But she'd get there [01:30.01]And she would find happiness [01:32.12]If she would follow her dream [01:35.73] [01:37.73]After she ran away she went to Santa Fe [01:41.42]And in the year that she stayed there [01:43.88]She learned about life [01:47.17] [01:48.81]In just a little while she learned that with her smile [01:52.52]She could have pretty clothes [01:54.29]She could be any man's wife [01:58.08] [01:59.99]Rich men romanced her they dined [02:02.10]And they danced her [02:03.44]She understood men [02:04.91]And she treated them all just the same [02:09.65] [02:10.80]A form that was fine [02:12.39]And rare dark shining glossy hair [02:14.91]Lovely to look at Felena was this woman's name [02:20.59] [02:22.35]Restless in Santa Fe she had to get away [02:25.99]To any town where the lights [02:28.13]Had a much brighter glow [02:31.74] [02:33.36]One cowboy mentioned the town of El Paso [02:37.03]They never stopped dancing [02:38.53]And money like whiskey would flow [02:42.97] [02:44.43]She bought a one way a ticket from Santa Fe [02:48.15]Three days and nights on a stage [02:50.23]With a rest now and then [02:54.78] [02:55.45]She didn't mind that she knew [02:57.66]She would find that [02:58.90]Her new life would be more exciting [03:01.83]Than where she had been [03:05.09] [03:06.58]The stage made it's last stop up there [03:08.81]On the mountain top [03:10.40]To let her see all the lights at the foot of the hill [03:16.02] [03:17.83]Her world was brighter and deep down inside her [03:21.33]An uncontrolled beating her young heart [03:23.79]Just wouldn't be still [03:26.59] [03:28.71]She got a hotel a room at the Lily Belle [03:32.34]Quickly she changed to a form fitting black satin dress [03:38.87] [03:39.84]Every man stopped to stare at this form fine and rare [03:43.60]Even the women remarked of the charm she possessed [03:49.86] [03:51.08]Dancing and laughter was what she was after [03:54.37]And Rosa's Cantina had lights with love in the gleam [04:00.94] [04:01.98]That's what she hunted and that's what she wanted [04:05.04] [04:05.61]Rosa's was one place a nice girl would never be seen [04:11.34] [04:13.10]It was the same way it was back in Santa Fe [04:16.61]Men would make fools of themselves [04:18.57]At the thought of romance [04:23.06] [04:23.88]Rosa took heed of the place was in need of [04:27.31]This kind of excitement so she paid Felena to dance [04:33.52] [04:34.77]A year passed or maybe more [04:36.63]And then through the swinging doors [04:38.60]Came a young cowboy [04:40.10]So tall and so handsomely dressed [04:44.86] [04:45.91]This one was new in town hadn't been seen around [04:49.57]He was so different he wasn't like all of the rest [04:55.22] [04:56.74]Feleena danced close to him then threw a rose to him [05:00.47]Quickly he walked to her table and there he sat down [05:05.76] [05:07.85]And in a day or so wherever folks would go [05:11.55]They'd see this young cowboy showing Felena the town [05:17.43] [05:18.89]Six weeks he went with her each minute spent with her [05:22.57]But he was insanely jealous of glances she'd give [05:28.17] [05:29.59]Inside he was a hurting from all of her flirting [05:33.36]But that was her nature [05:34.91]And that was the way that she lived [05:39.32] [05:40.73]She flirted one night it started a gun fight [05:44.19]And after the smoke cleared away [05:46.43]On the floor lay a man [05:50.22] [05:51.65]Felena's young lover had shot down another [05:55.18]And he had to leave there [05:57.03]So out through the back door he ran [06:01.24] [06:02.82]The next day at five o'clock she heard a rifle shot [06:06.49]Quickly she ran to the door that was facing the pass [06:12.58] [06:13.79]She saw her cowboy her wild riding cowboy [06:16.92] [06:17.51]Low in the saddle her cowboy was riding in fast [06:23.53] [06:24.86]She ran to meet him to kiss and to greet him [06:28.16]He saw her and motioned her back [06:30.66]With a wave of his hand [06:34.97] [06:35.95]Bullets were flying Felena was crying [06:39.21]As she saw him fall from the saddle and into the sand [06:45.22] [06:46.90]Felena knelt near him to hold and to hear him [06:50.45]When she felt the warm blood that flowed [06:52.69]From the wound in his side [06:56.60] [06:58.00]He raised to kiss her and she heard him whisper [07:00.80] [07:01.50]Never forget me Felena it's over goodbye [07:07.23] [07:08.81]Quickly she grabbed for the six gun that he wore [07:12.15]And screaming in anger [07:13.95]And placing the gun to her breast [07:18.75] [07:19.72]Bury us both deep and maybe we'll find peace [07:23.15]And pulling the trigger [07:24.86]She fell cross the dead cowboy's chest [07:29.12] [07:30.73]Out in El Paso whenever the wind blows [07:34.05]If you listen closely at night you'll hear in the wind [07:39.52] [07:41.47]A woman is crying it's not the wind sighing [07:44.54] [07:45.22]Old timer's tell you Felena is calling for him [07:50.31] [07:52.56]You'll hear them talking and you'll hear them walking [07:55.60] [07:56.11]You'll hear them laugh [07:57.45]And you'll look but there's no one around [08:02.42] [08:03.48]Don't be alarmed there is really no harm there [08:06.93]It's only the young cowboy showing Felena the town