{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1932591,"song":"El Paso City","artist":"Marty Robbins","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1932591-el-paso-city-chords-by-marty-robbins/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1932591?type=chord","rating":4.88669,"votes":97,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                              [ch]F[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nFrom thirty thousand feet above the desert floor, I see it there below[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]F[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nA city with a legend - the west Texas city of El Paso[/tab]\r\n[tab]                              [ch]F[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhere long ago I heard a song about a Texas cowboy and a girl[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                           [ch]G[/ch]                                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd a little place called Rosa's, where he used to go and watch this beauty whirl.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                      [ch]F[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI don't recall who sang the song, but I recall the story that I heard[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]F[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd as I look down on the city, I remember each and every word[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]F[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe singer sang about a jealous cowboy, and the way he used a gun[/tab]\r\n[tab]                               [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTo kill another cowboy then he had to leave El Paso on the run.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nEl Paso City, by the Rio Grande[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe cowboy lived and rode away[/tab]\r\n     \r\nBut love was strong he couldn't stay\r\n[tab]                                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHe rode back just to die in that El Paso sand[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nEl Paso City, by the Rio Grande[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]                   \r\nI try not to let you cross my mind[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut still I find there's such a mystery in the song that I don't understand.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]                                  [ch]F[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMy mind is down there somewhere, as I fly above the badlands of New Mexico[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                       [ch]F[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI can't explain why I should know, the very trail he rode back to El Paso[/tab]\r\n[tab]                           [ch]F[/ch]                                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nCan it be that man can disappear from life and live another time[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                       [ch]G[/ch]                                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd does the mystery deepen 'cause you think that you yourself lived in that other time.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]F[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSomewhere in my deepest thoughts, familIar scenes and memories unfold[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                    [ch]F[/ch]                                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThese wild and unexplained emotions that I've had so long but I have never told[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]F[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nLike every time I fly up thru the heavens and I see you there below[/tab]\r\n[tab]                              [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI get the feeling sometime in another world I lived in El Paso.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus] \r\n[tab]      [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nEl Paso City, by the Rio Grande[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nCould it be that I could be the cowboy in this mystery[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThat died there in that desert sand so long ago[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nEl Paso City, by the Rio Grande[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA voice tells me to go and see[/tab]\r\n\r\nAnother voice keeps tellin' me\r\n[tab]                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMaybe death awaits me in El Paso[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]  \r\nEl Paso City....[/tab]","plain_text":"[Intro]\nC F C F C\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n     \nBut love was strong he couldn't stay\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus] \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnother voice keeps tellin' me","chords":["C","F","A","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}