El Paso (song)

El Paso is a western ballad by singer Marty Robbins.

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Ballad - Marty Robbins

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:"Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl..."

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The song speaks of a young cowboy in El Paso, Texas, circa 1880, who falls in love with a local Mexican cantina dancer. When another man makes advances on the young woman, the El Paso cowboy guns down the challenge then flees El Paso for fear of being hung for murder. After living several weeks in the west Texas desert, he risks returning to El Paso out of love for the Mexian girl. Upon entering the town, a posse finds him and shoots him off his horse, but the cowboy manages to reach the home of his Mexican love and dies in her arms.

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Cowboy - El Paso, Texas - 1880 - Mexican - Cantina - Guns down - Murder - Texas - Posse

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