<P> In 1966, Robbins recorded "Feleena (From El Paso)", telling the life story of Feleena, the "Mexican girl" from "El Paso", in a third - person narrative . This track was over eight minutes long . Robbins wrote most of it in Phoenix, Arizona, but went to El Paso seeking inspiration for the conclusion . </P> <P> Born in a desert shack in New Mexico during a thunderstorm, Feleena runs away from home at 17, living off her charms for a year in Santa Fe, before moving to the brighter lights of El Paso to become a paid dancer . After another year, the narrator of "El Paso" arrives, the first man she did not have contempt for . He spends six weeks romancing her, before shooting another man with whom she was flirting through "insane jealousy" in a retelling of the key moment in the original song . Her lover's return to El Paso comes only a day after his flight (the original song suggests a longer timeframe before his return) and as she goes to run to him, the cowboy motions to her to stay out of the line of fire and is shot; immediately after his dying kiss, Feleena shoots herself with his gun . Their ghosts are heard to this day in the wind blowing around El Paso: "It's only the young cowboy showing Feleena the town". </P> <P> In 1976 Robbins released another reworking, "El Paso City", in which the present - day singer is a passenger on a flight over El Paso, which reminds him of a song he had heard "long ago," proceeding to summarize the original "El Paso" story . "I don't recall who sang the song," he sings, but he feels a supernatural connection to the story: "Could it be that I could be the cowboy in this mystery...," he asks, suggesting a past life . This song was a country number one . The arrangement includes riffs and themes from the previous two El Paso songs . Robbins wrote it while flying over El Paso in, he reported, the same amount of time it takes to sing--four minutes and fourteen seconds . It was only the second time that ever happened to him; the first time was when he composed the original "El Paso" as fast as he could write it down . Robbins intended to do one more sequel, "The Mystery of Old El Paso," but he died in late 1982 before he could finish the final song . </P>

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