El Paso City-Marty Robbins

[ti:El Paso City] [ar:Marty Robbins] [al:Under the Western Skies, Vol. 5] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]El Paso City - Marty Robbins [00:13.70]From thirty thousand feet [00:15.41]Above the desert floor I see it there below [00:19.72] [00:22.48]A city with the legend [00:24.36] [00:25.20]The west Texas city of El Paso [00:28.85] [00:31.44]Where long ago I heard a song [00:33.56]About a Texas cowboy and a girl [00:37.97] [00:40.47]And a little place called Rose's [00:42.16]Where he used to go [00:43.74]And watch this beauty whirl [00:46.20] [00:49.31]I don't recall who sang the song [00:51.47]But I recall the story that I heard [00:55.48] [00:58.55]And as I look down on the city [01:00.71]I remember each and every word [01:04.41] [01:07.15]The singer sang about a jealous cowboy [01:10.31]And the way he used a gun [01:13.00] [01:16.16]To kill another cowboy [01:18.14]Then he had to leave El Paso on the run [01:21.24] [01:24.46]El Paso City by the Rio Grande [01:32.94] [01:34.29]The cowboy lived and rode away [01:36.43]But love was strong he couldn't stay [01:38.52]He rode back just to die in that El Paso sand [01:42.71] [01:44.78]El Paso City by the Rio Grande [01:51.90] [01:54.56]I try not to let you cross my mind [01:57.00]But still I find [01:58.01]There's such a mystery in the song [02:00.55]That I don't understand [02:02.45] [02:05.37]My mind is down there somewhere as [02:07.47]I fly above the badlands of New Mexico [02:11.82] [02:14.20]I can't explain why I should know [02:16.35]The very trail he rode back to El Paso [02:21.37] [02:23.27]Can it be that man can disappear from [02:26.16]Life and live another time [02:29.56] [02:32.20]And does the mystery deepen cause you think [02:34.92]That you yourself lived in that other time [02:37.87] [02:41.16]Somewhere in my deepest thoughts [02:43.20]Familiar scenes and memories unfold [02:47.86] [02:50.07]These wild and unexplained emotions [02:52.28]That I've had so long but I have never told [02:57.49] [02:58.95]Like everytime I fly up through the heavens [03:01.87]And I see you there below [03:05.76] [03:07.98]I get the feeling sometime in another world [03:11.46]I lived in El Paso [03:13.95] [03:16.16]El Paso City by the Rio Grande [03:24.38] [03:26.05]Could it be that I could be [03:27.80]The cowboy in this mystery [03:30.33]That died there in that [03:31.66]Desert sand so long ago [03:34.50] [03:36.24]El Paso City by the Rio Grande [03:44.79] [03:46.00]A voice tells me to go and seek [03:48.33]Another voice keeps telling me [03:50.52]Maybe death awaits me in El Paso [03:54.48] [03:56.30]El Paso City