El Paso City Lyrics - Marty Robbins

From thirty thousand feet above the desert floor I see it there below 

A city with a legend, the West Texas city of El Paso 

Where long ago I heard a song about a Texas cowboy and a girl 

And a little place called Rosa's where he used to go and watch this beauty whirl 

I don't recall who sang the song but I recall a story that I heard 

And as I look down on this city I remember each and every word 

The singer sang about a jealous cowboy and the way he used a gun 

To kill another cowboy, then he had to leave El Paso on the run 

El Paso City 

By the Rio Grande 

The cowboy lived and rode away but love was strong he couldn't stay 

He rode back just to die in that El Paso sand 

El Paso City 

By the Rio Grande 

I try not to let you cross my mind but still I find 

There's such a mystery in the song that I don't understand 

My mind is down there somewhere as I fly above the badlands of New Mexico 

I can't explain why I should know the very trail he rode back to El Paso 

Can it be that man can disappear from life and live another time 

And does the mystery deepen 'cause you think that you yourself lived in that other time 

Somewhere in my deepest thoughts familiar scenes and memories unfold 

These wild and unexplained emotions that I've had so long, but I have never told 

Like everytime I fly up through the heavens and I see you there below 

I get the feeling sometime in another world I lived in El Paso 

El Paso City 

By the Rio Grande 

Could it be that I could be the cowboy in the mystery 

That died there in that desert sand so long ago 

El Paso City 

By the Rio Grande 

A voice tells me to go and seek, another voice keeps telling me 

Maybe death awaits me in El Paso 

El Paso City