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"El Paso" was, at some four-and-a-half minutes long, far lengthier than most contemporary songs. Robbins' record company was unsure if radio stations would play such a long song, and so released two versions of the song: the full-length version, and an edited version which was nearer the three-minute mark. The full-length version was overwhelmingly preferred. Several years later, Bob Dylan 's epochal " Like A Rolling Stone " helped make longer songs more acceptable on the radio. Seventeen years after its release, Marty Robbins released a sequel of sorts, "El Paso City," in which the narrator looks back on the story of "El Paso" as a past-life experience. "Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl..." The song's narrator is a young Cowboy in El Paso, Texas , circa 1880 , who falls in love with a Felina, a Mexican Cantina dancer. When another man makes advances on the young woman, the El Paso cowboy Guns Down the challenger then flees El Paso for fear of being hung for Murder . After living several weeks alone in the Badlands of New Mexico , he risks returning to El Paso out of love for Felina. Upon entering the town, a Posse finds him and shoots him off his horse, but the cowboy manages to reach Felina's home, and he dies in her arms. |
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