EL PASO CITY 
Words and music by Marty Robbins 
 
(C) From thirty thousand feet above 
The (F) desert floor, I see it there be-(C) low 
A city with a legend - 
The (F) west Texas city of El (C) Paso 
Where long ago I heard a song 
A-(F) bout a Texas cowboy and a (C) girl 
And a little place called Rosa's 
Where he (G) used to go and watch this beauty (C) whirl. 
 
I don't recall who sang the song 
But I recall the story that I heard 
And as I look down on the city, 
I remember each and ev'ry 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. 
 
(C7) El Paso (F) Cit-y, by the Rio (C) Grand-e 
(G) The cowboy lived and rode away 
But love was strong he couldn't stay 
He rode back just to die in that (C) El Paso sand (C7) 
El Paso (F) Cit-y, by the Rio (C) Grand-e 
(G) I try not to let you cross my mind 
But still I find there's just a mystery 
In the song that I don't (C) 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 
Familar scenes and memories unfold 
These wild and unexplained emotions 
That I've had so long but I have never told 
Like every time I fly up thru the heavens 
And I see you there below 
I get the feeling sometime 
In another world I lived in El Paso. 
 
El Paso Cit-y, by the Rio Grand-e 
Could it be that I could be 
The cowboy in this mystery 
That died there in that desert sand so long ago 
El Paso Cit-y, by the Rio Grand-e 
A voice tells me to go and see 
Another voice keeps tellin' me 
Maybe death awaits me in El Paso 
 
El Paso Cit-y.