Talk:El Paso (song)

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Feleena[edit]

Feleena? Really? Not "Felina"? --jpgordon^∇∆∇∆ 02:01, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, that's the spelling on the Columbia compilation album. jnestorius^(talk) 13:51, 2 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am currently listening to this song. There is no doubt in my mind he said "foul evil". -Yancyfry 04:46, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Which compilation album would that be? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrbearsb (talk • contribs) 17:49, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

- Fourteen years later I've put in an editnotice. I don't imagine it will help, but I can dream. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 20:55, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The extra verse[edit]

Does anyone have any information on the lost verse to El Paso? The version we all know has the narrator run out the backdoor or the cantina after shooting the cowboy, however I heard a version on a Robbins CD that adds a verse in between in which the narrator pauses for a moment in shock at what he'd one. 68.146.70.50 (talk) 03:51, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The "extra verse" is from the album cut, the shorter version is the radio edit. --Khajidha (talk) 15:11, 6 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Are we allowed to put ghostwriter on the wiki? I happen to know that a ghostwriter wrote the song El Paso, is this relevant, or are we not supposed to put it here? --Vectivus14 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 12:31, 5 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Who is the ghostwriter? I thought Marty Robbins wrote it. 2600:1700:4031:28E0:1C16:8F95:E29D:50D3 (talk) 01:03, 21 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

He did. This guy is full of BS. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 03:42, 21 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Breaking Bad?[edit]

Is this one reference really notable enough to warrant an entire section in the article? I could see putting it in a 'popular culture' section if there were one, but its own long section seems a bit much — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.21.96.163 (talk) 19:46, 1 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

CopyVio?[edit]

These days with Wikipedia being so well established it has become more difficult to tell what material might have been taken from websites, or if websites have taken from the article. This webpage, however, features sections that are word for word identical to what is in this article: [1] . Compare the second paragraph of the link with the text in "The Song" in this article. As I have no way of telling which came first, I'm hesitant to throw up the copyvio notice. 68.146.52.234 (talk) 20:33, 17 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Is Feleena 'real' in the last verse?[edit]

I have long interpreted the kiss from Feleena in the last verse as a hallucination the narrator has just as he dies. Feleena did not find him from 'nowhere'; she was 'nowhere' and he died a fool for giving his life to a woman who cared nothing for him. I think it makes a better song, but with a quick google search I can find no independent confirmation. The end of the song reminds me in some ways of the 'ghost song' "Feelin' Good Again" by Robert Earl Keene Seki1949 (talk) 21:18, 2 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If you go solely by the song "El Paso" itself, I can see why you might think that. However, the follow up song "Feleena" is told from her point of view and makes clear that she was really there. --Khajidha (talk) 21:37, 2 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Albeit not for long. :'( JKeck (talk) 12:48, 3 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Well, not physically. According to later lines in the song, she and the cowboy are both still around. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 17:36, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]