[00:00:07] Out in New Mexico many long years ago [00:00:11] There in a shack on the desert one night in a storm [00:00:19] Amid streaks of lightning and loud desert thunder [00:00:22] To a young Mexican couple a baby was born [00:00:30] Just as the baby cried thunder and lightning died [00:00:33] Moon gave it's light to the world and the stars did the same [00:00:41] Mother and father both proud of the daughter [00:00:45] That heaven had sent them Felena was this baby's name [00:00:53] When she was seventeen bothered by crazy dreams [00:00:56] She ran away from the shack and left them to roam [00:01:03] Father and mother both asked one another [00:01:08] What made her run away what made Felena leave home [00:01:14] Tired of the desert nights fartherly grieved to strife [00:01:18] She ran away late one night in the moon's golden beam [00:01:26] She didn't know where she'd go but she'd get there [00:01:29] And she would find happiness if she would follow her dream [00:01:37] After she ran away she went to Santa Fe [00:01:41] And in the year that she stayed there she learned about life [00:01:48] In just a little while she learned that with her smile [00:01:52] She could have pretty clothes she could be any man's wife [00:01:59] Rich men romanced her they dined and they danced her [00:02:03] She understood men and she treated them all just the same [00:02:10] A form that was fine and rare dark shining glossy hair [00:02:14] Lovely to look at Felena was this woman's name [00:02:22] Restless in Santa Fe she had to get away [00:02:25] To any town where the lights had a much brighter glow [00:02:32] One cowboy mentioned the town of El Paso [00:02:36] They never stopped dancing and money like whiskey would flow [00:02:44] She bought a one way a ticket from Santa Fe [00:02:47] Three days and nights on a stage with a rest now and then [00:02:55] She didn't mind that she knew she would find that [00:02:58] Her new life would be more exciting than where she had been [00:03:06] The stage made it's last stop up there on the mountain top [00:03:10] To let her see all the lights at the foot of the hill [00:03:17] Her world was brighter and deep down inside her [00:03:21] An uncontrolled beating her young heart just wouldn't be still [00:03:28] She got a hotel a room at the Lily Belle [00:03:32] Quickly she changed to a form fitting black satin dress [00:03:39] Every man stopped to stare at this form fine and rare [00:03:43] Even the women remarked of the charm she possessed [00:03:50] Dancing and laughter was what she was after [00:03:54] And Rosa's Cantina had lights with love in the gleam [00:04:01] That's what she hunted and that's what she wanted [00:04:05] Rosa's was one place a nice girl would never be seen [00:04:12] It was the same way it was back in Santa Fe [00:04:16] Men would make fools of themselves at the thought of romance [00:04:23] Rosa took heed of the place was in need of [00:04:26] This kind of excitement so she paid Felena to dance [00:04:34] A year passed or maybe more and then through the swinging doors [00:04:38] Came a young cowboy so tall and so handsomely dressed [00:04:45] This one was new in town hadn't been seen around [00:04:49] He was so different he wasn't like all of the rest [00:04:56] Feleena danced close to him then threw a rose to him [00:05:00] Quickly he walked to her table and there he sat down [00:05:07] And in a day or so wherever folks would go [00:05:10] They'd see this young cowboy showing Felena the town [00:05:18] Six weeks he went with her each minute spent with her [00:05:22] But he was insanely jealous of glances she'd give [00:05:29] Inside he was a hurting from all of her flirting [00:05:33] But that was her nature and that was the way that she lived [00:05:40] She flirted one night it started a gun fight [00:05:43] And after the smoke cleared away on the floor lay a man [00:05:51] Felena's young lover had shot down another [00:05:54] And he had to leave there so out through the back door he ran [00:06:02] The next day at five o'clock she heard a rifle shot