El Paso (Marty Robbins song.)

[Bob Wright]

At times I wondered whay the cowboy i the song was hunted down and shot. It was clearly a case of self defense and the other cowboy drew first. Then it dawned on me...he was a horse thief!

"Out the back soor of Rosies I ran
out where the horses were tied,
I picked a good one, one that could ride..."

Bob Wright

 

[Danjet500]

Just heard this song on the radio yesterday. I started singing it and she turned the channel! I immediately turned it back and continued singing.

 

[eveled]

I always wondered the same. Why did he run? I figured there was more to the story.

The biggest question to me was why did he go back?

I mean there are other women and it doesn’t sound like a committed long term relationship.

 

[Bob Wright]

I always wondered the same. Why did he run? I figured there was more to the story.

The biggest question to me was why did he go back?

I mean there are other women and it doesn't sound like a committed long term relationship.

"............I was in love, but in vain I could tell...."
For wicked Felena.

Bob Wright

 

[eveled]

Exactly, he knew it was dumb going back. But he did it anyway.

Would make sense if it was his daughter or wife being held against her will. You do anything for family. But for a bar girl he calls wicked? Fool.

I wonder if thinking about this as a youth kept me from doing stupid things for lust?

Still one of my all time favorite songs.

 

[Watertender]

Classic song and case of the little head thinking for the big head! It's a story as old as time itself.

 

[sfhogman]

Aw, c'mon...where would we be without the Boxtops' Sweet Cream Ladies?

 

[Yaworski]

At times I wondered whay the cowboy i the song was hunted down and shot. It was clearly a case of self defense and the other cowboy drew first. Then it dawned on me...he was a horse thief!

Could also be that the dead guy was a popular local guy and the protagonist was just a drifter.

 

[el caminero]

Hothead shot felinas brother, its in the third song

 

[Gator89]

El Paso was first. El Paso City came second.

 

[Yaworski]

Hothead shot felinas brother, its in the third song

Revisionist history. Fake news.

 

[Ale-8(1)]

At times I wondered whay the cowboy i the song was hunted down and shot. It was clearly a case of self defense and the other cowboy drew first. Then it dawned on me...he was a horse thief!

"Out the back sdoor of Rosies I ran
out where the horses were tied,
I picked a good one, one that could ride..."

Bob Wright

Actually . . . "I caught a good one, it looked like it could run, up on its back, and away I did ride"

 

[el caminero]

Actually . . . "I caught a good one, it looked like it could run, up on its back, and away I did ride"

Not a hoss-theff, jes a unagreed-upon trade fer the hoss he rode in on?

 

[stonebuster]

Classic song and case of the little head thinking for the big head! It's a story as old as time itself.

Combined with too much tequila at Rosa's cantina

 

[Ale-8(1)]

And running away like an idiot from what was obviously a self-defense shooting.

 

[MaxMan]

I just thought it was a jealous boyfriend. Ala Tom Dooley

 

[Jeepnik]

El Paso was first. El Paso City came second.

Actually, El Paso told the story from his point of view. The second of the trilogy, Felina, told it from her's. The last El Paso City is haunting in its story of reincarnation.

 

[MaxMan]

And running away like an idiot from what was obviously a self-defense shooting.

Depends on the witnesses. Sounds to me like he was in someone else's home turf uh Bar that is.

 

[Gator89]

Actually, El Paso told the story from his point of view. The second of the trilogy, Felina, told it from her's. The last El Paso City is haunting in its story of reincarnation.

If I have ever heard Feleena played on the radio, I have forgotten it.

 

[nvbirdman]

How many of you have a t-shirt from Rosa's Cantina? I do.

 

[ediogenes]

No T-shirt, but I have danced a two-step and drunk a beer or two there.

 

[Fox Mike]

Out the back door, of Rosa's, you are not too far from being in New Mexico, if you head West

 

[Hawk-in-Wi]

Feleena

El Paso

El Paso - El Paso City video of both songs

a few more
The Master's Call

Mr. Shorty

Big Iron

 

[el caminero]

20th century drifter is prolly my mostest favourite of his.

 

[steveodtw]

Certainly one of the greatest ballads of all time. I've got the Gunfighters CD. Love it. Has two cuts of El Paso on it.

 

[Hawk-in-Wi]

did you mean this one ??

Marty Robbins Twentieth Century Drifter

 

[el caminero]

Yep. Thats a panther, the de ville iirc. His race car woulda been a better album cover, imho, the 42 car, or even ol' 777

 

[Joey]

I can't think of a MR song I don't like. I mean, what a voice! One I really like is Cowboy in a Continental Suit. His son sounds just like him.

 

[wproct]

I'm gonna sound like an old codger but there were really some good singers and songs back then, and they had lyrics that you could really remember. Some of the stuff anymore just makes no sense at all.

 

[Joey]

What he said.