Faleena (from El Paso) Chords

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Out in New Mexico, many long years ago, there in a shack on the desert one night in a [B] storm.
_ _ _ _ Amid streaks of lightning and loud desert thunder, to a young Mexican couple a baby [E] was born. _ _ _
_ _ Just as the baby cried thunder and lightning died, moon gave its light to the world and the stars [A] did the _ same. _ _ _
Mother and father [E] both proud of the daughter that heaven had sent them, [B] Paulina was this [E] baby's name.
_ _ _ _ When she was seventeen, bothered by crazy dreams, she ran away from the shack and left them [B] to roam.
_ _ _ _ Father and mother both asked one another, what made her run away, what made Paulina [E] leave home? _ _ _
_ Tired of the desert nights, poverty, grief and strife, she went her way late one night in the moon's [A] golden _ _ _ gleam. _
She didn't know where [E] she'd go but she'd get there and she would find happiness [B] if she would follow [E] her dream.
_ _ _ _ _ After she ran away, she went to Santa Fe and in the year that she stayed there, she learned [B] about life. _
_ _ In just a little while, she learned that with a smile, she could have a pretty close, she could be any [E] man's wife. _ _ _ _
Rich men romanced her, they dined and they danced her, she understood men and she treated them all just [A] the same.
_ _ _ A form that was fine and rare, [E] dark, shiny, glossy hair, lovely look at [B] Paulina was this [E] woman's name. _
_ _ _ _ Restless in Santa Fe, she had to get away to any town where the lights had a much brighter [F#m] glow.
[B] _ _ _ _
_ One cowboy mentioned the town of El Paso, they never stopped dancing and money like [E] whiskey did flow.
_ _ _ _ _ She bought a one-way ticket from Santa Fe, three days and nights on a stage [Bm] with the rest [A] now and [E] then.
_ _ _ [A] _ She didn't mind that [E] she knew she would find that her new life would be [B] more exciting than where she [E] had been. _ _ _
_ The stage made its last stop up there on the mountain top to let her see all of the lights at the foot [B] of the hill. _ _ _ _ _
Her world was brighter [G#m] and deep [B] down inside her, an uncontrolled beating, her young heart just wouldn't be [E] still.
_ _ _ _ She got a hotel, her room at the lily bell, quickly she changed to a form-fitting black [A] satin dress. _ _ _
_ _ Every man stopped to [E] stare at this form fine and rare, even the women [F#m] remarked of the charm she [E] possessed. _ _ _ _ _ _
Dancing and laughter was what she was after and roses canteen her headlights with love [B] in the _
[F#m] gleam.
_ _ [B] _ That's what she hunted and that's what she wanted, roses was one place a nice girl would never [E] be seen. _ _
_ _ It was the same way it was back in Santa Fe, men would make fools of themselves at the thought of [A] romance. _ _ _ _ _
Rosa took heed [E] of the place was in need of this kind of excitement so she [B] paid Felina [E] to dance.
_ _ _ A year passed her maybe more than through the swinging doors came a young cowboy so tall and so [B] handsomely dressed. _ _
_ _ This one was new in town, hadn't been seen around, he was so different he wasn't like all of [E] the rest. _ _ _ _
Felina danced close to him, then threw a rose to him, quickly he walked to her table and there he [A] sat down.
_ _ _ _ And in a day [E] or so wherever folks would go they'd see this young cowboy [B] show in [E] Felina the town. _ _
_ _ Six weeks he went with her, each minute spent with her, but he was insanely jealous of glances [B] she'd give. _ _ _ _
Inside he was a hurting from all of her flirting, that was her nature and that was the way that [E] she lived.
_ _ _ _ She flirted one night and started a gunfight and after the smoke cleared away on the floor [A] lay a _ _ _ man.
_ _ Felina's young lover [E] had shot down another and he had to leave [B] there so out through the back door [C#m] he ran.
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The next day at five o'clock she heard a rifle shot, quickly she ran to the door that was facing [B] the past.
_ _ _ _ _ She saw her cowboy, her wild riding cowboy, low in the saddle her cowboy was [E] riding in fast. _ _
_ _ She ran to meet him, to kiss and to greet him, he saw her and motioned her back with the wave of [A] his _ _ _ hand. _
Bullets [F#m] were [E] flying, Felina was crying as she saw him fall from the [B] saddle and into [E] the sand.
_ _ _ Felina knelt near him to hold and to hear him when she felt the warm blood that flowed from the wound in his [B] side. _ _
_ _ He raised to kiss her and she heard him whisper, never forget me Felina [F#m] it's over goodbye.
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Quickly she grabbed for the six gun that he wore and screaming in anger and placing the gun to [A] her _ _ _ breast.
_ Bury a small thief [E] and maybe we'll find peace then pulling the trigger [B] she fell across the dead [E] cowboy's _ chest.
_ _ Out in El Paso whenever the wind blows if you listen closely at night you'll hear in [A] the wind.
[B] _ _ _ _
A woman is crying it's not the wind sign, old timers tell you Felina is calling [E] for him.
_ _ _ _ _ You'll hear them talking and you'll hear them walking, you'll hear them laughing, you'll look but there's no [A] one around. _ _ _
_ _ Don't be alarmed there [E] is really no harm there it's only the young cowboy [Em] showing Felina the [A] _ town.
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