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El Paso City 
Words and music by Marty Robbins 
 
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From thirty thousand feet above 
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The desert floor I see it there below 

A city with a legend  
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The west Texas city of El Paso 


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

And a little place called Rosa's 
         G7                               C
Where he used to go and watch this beauty whirl
 
 
I don't recall who sang the song 
      F                       C
But I recall the story that I heard 

And as I look down on the city 
  F                       C
I remember each and every word 


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

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

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El Paso Cit-y by the Rio Grand-e 
    G7
The cowboy lived and rode away 

But love was strong he couldn't stay 
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He rode back just to die in that El Paso sand  

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El Paso Cit-y by the Rio Grand-e 
  G7
I try not to let you cross my mind 

But still I find there's just a mystery 
                              C
In the song that I don't understand 
 

My mind is down there somewhere 
     F                             C
As I fly above the badlands of New Mexico 

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


Can it be that man can disappear 
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From life and live another time 
                                      G7
And does the mystery deepen cause you think
                                      C
That you yourself lived in that other time 
 

Somewhere in my deepest thoughts 
  F                          C
Familiar scenes and memories unfold 

These wild and unexplained emotions 
     F                                 C
That I've had so long but I have never told 


Like every time I fly up through the heavens 
    F                 C
And I see you there below 

I get the feeling sometime 
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In another world I lived in El Paso
 
        F                C
El Paso Cit-y by the Rio Grand-e
         G7
Could it be that I could be 

The cowboy in this mystery 
                                            C   C7
That died there in that desert sand so long ago 

        F                C
El Paso Cit-y by the Rio Grand-e 
  
G7
A voice tells me to go and see 

Another voice keeps telling me
                            C
Maybe death awaits me in El Paso 
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El Paso Cit-y 

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