Marty Robbins - Faleena (From El Paso) lyrics

Out in New Mexico, many long years ago
There in a shack on the desert
One night in a storm
Amid streaks of lightnin' and
Loud desert thunder
To a young Mexican couple, a baby was born
Just as the baby cried
Thunder and lightnin' died
Moon gave it's light to the world
And the stars did the same
Mother and Father, both proud of the daughter
That heaven had sent them
Faleena was this baby's name

When she was seventeen
Bothered by crazy dreams
She ran away from the shack
And left them to roam
Father and Mother, both asked one another
What made her run away
What made Faleena leave home?


Tired of the desert nights, poverty
Grief and strife she ran away late one night
In the moon's golden gleam
She didn't know where she'd go
But she'd get there
And she would find happiness
If she would follow her dream

After she ran away, she went to Sante Fe
And in the year that she stayed there
She learned about life
In just a little while
She learned that with a smile
She could have pretty clothes
She could be any man's wife
Rich men romanced her
They dined and they danced her
She understood men and she treated
Them all just the same
A form that was fine and rare
Dark shining glossy hair
Lovely to look at Faleena
Was this woman's name

Restless in Sante Fe, she had to get away
To any town where the lights
Had a much brighter glow
One cowboy mentioned the town of El Paso
They never stopped dancin' and money
Like whiskey did flow
She bought a one-way, a ticket from Sante Fe
Three days and nights on a stage
With a rest now and then
She didn't mind that
She knew she would find that
Her new life would be more exciting
Than where she had been

The stage made it's last stop
Up there on the mountain top
To let her see all of the lights
At the foot of the hill
Her world was brighter and
Deep down inside her
An uncontrolled beating
Her young heart just wouldn't be still
She got a hotel, a room at the Lily Belle
Quickly she changed to a
Form-fitting black satin dress
Ev'ry man stopped to stare
At this form fine and rare
Even the women remarked of
The charm she possessed

Dancin' and laughter, was what she was after
And Rosa's Cantina had lights
With love in the gleam
That's what she hunted and
That's what she wanted
Rosa's was one place
A nice girl would never be seen
It was the same way, it was back in Sante Fe
Men would make fools of themselves
At the thought of romance
Rosa took heed of, the place was in need of
This kind of excitement
So she paid Faleena to dance

A year passed and maybe more and
Then through the swingin' doors
Came a young cowboy so tall
And so handsomely dressed
This one was new in town
Hadn't been seen around
He was so different
He wasn't like all of the rest
Faleena danced close to him
Then threw a rose to him
Quickly he walked to her table
And there he sat down
And in a day or so, wherever folks would go
They'd see this young cowboy
Showin' Faleena the town

Six weeks he went with her
Each minute spent with her
But he was insanely jealous
Of glances she'd give
Inside he was a hurtin'
From all of her flirtin'
That was her nature and that was
The way that she lived
She flirted one night, it started a gun-fight
And after the smoke cleared away
On the floor lay a man
Faleena's young lover, had shot down another
And he had to leave there
So out through the back door he ran

The next day at five o'clock
She heard a rifle shot
Quickly she ran to the door
That was facin' the pass
She saw her cowboy, her wild-ridin' cowboy
Low in the saddle
Her cowboy was ridin' in fast
She ran to meet him, to kiss and to greet him
He saw her and motioned her back
With a wave of his hand
Bullets were flyin', Faleena was cryin'
As she saw him fall from the
Saddle and into the sand

Faleena knelt near him
To hold and to hear him
When she felt the warm blood that flowed
From the wound in his side
He raised to kiss her and
She heard him whisper
"Never forget me - Faleena it's over
Goodbye" quickly she grabbed for
The six-gun that he wore
And screamin' in anger and placin'
The gun to her breast
Bury us both deep and maybe we'll find peace
And pullin' the trigger
She fell 'cross the dead cowboy's chest

Out in El Paso, whenever the wind blows
If you listen closely at night
You'll hear in the wind a woman is cryin'
It's not the wind sighin'
Old timers tell you Faleena
Is callin' for him
You'll hear them talkin' and
You'll hear them walkin'
You'll hear them laugh and you'll look
But there's no one around
Don't be alarmed - there is
Really no harm there
It's only the young cowboy
Showin' Faleena the town