Out in the west Texas town of El Paso,

[Big_Rob]

This is one of my favorite ballads. I just love the way that the Grateful Dead covered it.

Bobby Wier has the perfect voice to do this song.

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[Tone2TheBone]

I could never get into the Dead. Used to hang around Deadheads sometimes too. The girls were kinda freaky. Cool song though.

[Big_Rob]

Ever since Sirius introduced the Grateful Dead channel, Ive been in GD Nirvana.

[snarph]

Shoot the original with Marty Robbins was MOMS favorite let me tell thats a spooky memory

[Justaguyin_nc]

Shoot the original with Marty Robbins was MOMS favorite let me tell thats a spooky memory

Still my fav version
Edit: the dancer did not influence me in my decision!

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[Big_Rob]

I would have to agree with everyone that the Marty Robbins version is the best because the original is always the best.

[Brian Krashpad]

My dad is/was a huge Marty Robbins fan. I bet I know every word to that song. Iirc there was even a sequel to the song that told the story of what happened after the original protaganist was shot.

[t_ross33]

My dad is/was a huge Marty Robbins fan. I bet I know every word to that song. Iirc there was even a sequel to the song that told the story of what happened after the original protaganist was shot.
Same here. This album cover is forever etched in my memory :rotflmao:

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b60/t_ross33/marty.gif

The sequel (at least one of them) is "El Paso City" also by Marty Robbins and tells the tale of a 20th Century traveller flying over the city and having a twighlight zone momement where he thinks he may be the reincarnation of the tragic cowboy in the original.

Cool stuff.

Trev

[Big_Rob]

Both songs are on his MySpace page

http://www.myspace.com/martyrobbinselpaso