El Paso City

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[Verse 1]
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From thirty thousand feet above the
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 desert floor, I see it there below
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A city with a legend - the west 
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Texas city of El Paso
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Where long ago I heard a song about
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 a Texas cowboy and a girl
And a little place called Rosa's, 
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where he used to go and watch this 
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beauty whirl.
I don't recall who sang the song, 
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but I recall the story that I heard
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And as I look down on the city, I 
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remember each and every word
The singer sang about a jealous 
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cowboy, and the way he used a gun
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To kill another cowboy then he had 
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to leave El Paso on the run.

[Chorus]
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El Paso City, by the Rio Grande
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The cowboy lived and rode away

Continúa después del anuncio
But love was strong he couldn't stay
He rode back just to die in that El 
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Paso sand
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El Paso City, by the Rio Grande
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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 
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understand.

[Verse 2]
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My mind is down there somewhere, as
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 I fly above the badlands of New 
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Mexico
I can't explain why I should know, 
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the very trail he rode back to El 
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Paso
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Can it be that man can disappear 
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from life and live another time
And does the mystery deepen 'cause 
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you think that you yourself lived 
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in that other time.
Somewhere in my deepest thoughts, 
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familIar scenes and memories unfold
These wild and unexplained emotions 
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that I've had so long but I have 
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never told
Like every time I fly up thru the 
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heavens and I see you there below
I get the feeling sometime in 
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another world I lived in El Paso.

[Chorus]
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El Paso City, by the Rio Grande
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Could it be that I could be the 
cowboy in this mystery
That died there in that desert sand 
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so long ago
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El Paso City, by the Rio Grande
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A voice tells me to go and see

Another voice keeps tellin' me
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Maybe death awaits me in El Paso
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El Paso City....