Out in New Mexico, long years ago in a shack on the desert, one night in a storm Amid streaks of lightnin' and desert thunder To a Mexican couple, a baby was born
Just as the baby cried, thunder and lightnin' Moon it's light to the world and the stars did the same and father, both proud of the daughter That Heaven had sent them, Feleena was this name
When she was seventeen, bothered by crazy She ran away from the shack and left to roam Father and mother, asked one another What made her run away, made Feleena leave home
Tired of the desert nights, fatherly to strife She ran away late one night in the golden gleam She know where she'd go but she'd get there And she would find happiness if she would her dream
After she ran away, she went to Fe And in the year that she there, she learned about life In just a little while she learned that with a She could have clothes, she could be any man's wife
Rich men romanced her, dined and they danced her She understood men and she them all just the same A form that was fine and rare, dark glossy hair Lovely to at, Feleena was this woman's name
Restless in Fe, she had to get away To any town the lights had a much brighter glow One cowboy mentioned the town of El never stopped dancin' and money like whiskey would flow
She bought one way a from Santa Fe Three days and on a stage with a rest now and then She didn't mind that she knew she find that Her new life would be more exciting than she had been
The stage made it's stop, up there on the mountain top To let her see all the lights at the of the hill Her world was brighter and deep inside her An uncontrolled beating her young heart just wouldn't be
She got a hotel at the Lily Belle Quickly she to a form fitting black satin dress Every man stopped to stare, at this fine and rare Even the remarked of the charm she possessed
Dancin' and laughter, was she was after And Cantina had lights with love in the gleam That's what she and that's what she wanted Rosa's was one place, a nice girl would be seen
It was the way, it was back in Santa Fe Men would make fools of themselves at the of romance Rosa took of the place was in need of This kind of excitement, so she paid Feleena to
A year passed and maybe more and then through the doors Came a young cowboy so tall and so dressed This one was new in town, hadn't seen around He was so different, he wasn't all of the rest
Feleena danced close to him, then a rose to him Quickly he walked to her table and he sat down And in a day or so, wherever would go They'd see this young cowboy, showin' Feleena the
Six weeks he went with her, each minute spent her But he was insanely jealous of glances she'd Inside he was a hurtin', all of her flirtin' That was her and that was the way that she lived
She flirted one night, it started a gun And the smoke cleared away on the floor lay a man Feleena's young lover had down another And he had to leave there, so out the back door he ran
The next day at o'clock, she heart a rifle shot Quickly she ran to the door was facin' the pass She saw her cowboy, her wild cowboy Low in the saddle, her was ridin' in fast
She ran to meet him to kiss and to him He saw her and motioned her back with a wave of his Bullets were flyin', Feleena was As she saw him fall from the saddle and into the
knelt near him to hold and to hear him When she the warm blood that flowed from the wound in his side He raised to kiss her and she him whisper "Never me, Feleena it's over, goodbye"
Quickly she grabbed for the six gun that he And screamin' in anger and placin' the gun to her Bury us both deep and maybe we'll find And the trigger, she fell 'cross the dead cowboy's chest
Out in El Paso, whenever the blows If you listen closely at night, you'll hear in the A is cryin', it's not the wind sighin' Old timer's tell you, Feleena is for him
You'll hear them and you'll hear them walkin' You'll hear laugh and you'll look but there's no one around be alarmed, there is really no harm there It's only the young cowboy, Feleena the town