C
From thirty thousand feet above
F
C
The desert floor I see it there below
F
C
The west Texas city of El Paso
F
C
About a Texas cowboy and a girl
G7
C
Where he used to go and watch this beauty whirl
F
C
But I recall the story that I heard
F
C
I remember each and every word
F
C
And the way he used a gun
G7
C
Then he had to leave El Paso on the run
C7
F
C
El Paso Cit-y by the Rio Grand-e
G7
The cowboy lived and rode away
C
C7
He rode back just to die in that El Paso sand
F
C
El Paso Cit-y by the Rio Grand-e
G7
I try not to let you cross my mind
C
In the song that I don’t understand
F
C
As I fly above the badlands of New Mexico
F
C
The very trail he rode back to El Paso
F
C
From life and live another time
G7
And does the mystery deepen cause you think
C
That you yourself lived in that other time
F
C
Familiar scenes and memories unfold
F
C
That I’ve had so long but I have never told
F
C
And I see you there below
G7
C
C7
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
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
C
Maybe death awaits me in El Paso
F
El Paso Cit-y