El Paso City-Carl Wilson

[ti:El Paso City] [ar:Carl Wilson] [al:Sing Me An Old Fashioned Song] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]El Paso City - Carl Wilson [00:13.24]From thirty thousand feet above the desert floor I see it there below [00:19.40] [00:21.92]A city with the legend the west Texas city of El Paso [00:28.91] [00:31.15]Where long ago I heard a song about a Texas cowboy and a girl [00:37.87] [00:40.18]And a little place called Rose's [00:41.83] [00:42.44]Where he used to go and watch this beauty whirl [00:46.64] [00:49.08]I don't recall who sang the song but I recall the story that I heard [00:55.58] [00:57.72]And as I look down on the city I remember each and every word [01:04.47] [01:07.06]The singer sang about a jealous cowboy and the way he used a gun [01:13.91] [01:16.20]To kill another cowboy then he had to leave El Paso on the run [01:22.32] [01:24.32]El Paso City by the Rio Grande [01:32.43] [01:34.14]The cowboy lived and rode away but love was strong he couldn't stay [01:38.73]He rode back just to die in that El Paso sand [01:42.87] [01:44.72]El Paso City by the Rio Grande [01:52.68] [01:54.02]I try not to let you cross my mind but still I find [01:57.80]There's such a mystery in the song that I don't understand [02:04.03] [02:05.58]My mind is down there somewhere [02:07.75]As I fly above the badlands of New Mexico [02:12.74] [02:14.73]I can't explain why I should know [02:17.04]The very trail he rode back to El Paso [02:21.42] [02:23.90]Can it be that man can disappear from life and live another time [02:30.24] [02:32.44]And does the mystery deepen [02:34.42]Cause you think that you yourself lived in that other time [02:38.86] [02:41.48]Somewhere in my deepest thoughts familiar scenes and memories unfold [02:47.48] [02:50.49]These wild and unexplained emotions [02:53.27]That I've had so long but I have never told [02:57.97] [02:59.58]Like everytime I fly up through the heavens and I see you there below [03:06.04] [03:08.64]I get the feelin' sometime in another world I lived in El Paso [03:15.05] [03:16.68]El Paso City by the Rio Grande [03:24.57] [03:26.95]Could it be that I could be the cowboy in this mystery [03:30.97]That died there in that desert sand so long ago [03:34.94] [03:37.13]El Paso City by the Rio Grande [03:45.52] [03:46.79]A voice tells me to go and seek another voice keeps tellin' me [03:51.53]Maybe death awaits me in El Paso [03:55.90] [03:57.43]El Paso City