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| Why don’t you fix your little problem and light this candle  |
When I was a boy, Marty Robbins set my imagination loose. One day I hope to find this little cantina in el paso. This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it. -Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Joshua Painter Played by Senator Fred Thompson | ||
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That is the only album I've ever owned in all the common formats. Vinyl, 8-track, cassette, CD and MP3.  | |||
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| Run Silent Run Deep  |
My Mom and Dad had his gunfighter ballads album. I used to listen to it all the time... _____________________________ Pledge allegiance or pack your bag! The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher Spread my work ethic, not my wealth | |||
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| Bookers Bourbon and a good cigar  |
To be immediately followed by his "El Paso City" Any dog can be a Guide Dog if you don't care where you're going. NRA ENDOWMENT LIFE MEMBER | |||
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Objectively Reasonable |
For all of Dad's cross-country PCS moves that I was old enough to remember, the music in the car might as well have been limited to two "stations": Marty Robbins (Gunfighter Ballads) and Johnny Cash. Hated both then. Love both now. | |||
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I assume you mean here, because the song was released 17 years later. (and wasn't particularly good IMO) _____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911. | |||
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| Bookers Bourbon and a good cigar |
Yes, in the song rotation. Any dog can be a Guide Dog if you don't care where you're going. NRA ENDOWMENT LIFE MEMBER | |||
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Always liked Marty Robbins. | |||
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| Why don’t you fix your little problem and light this candle |
so you guys, once again I am amazed. Not only is there 'el paso city' there is also 'feleena (el paso)' as well. Further, I found there are two versions of el paso, one that has an extra verse that was not on the 'gunfighters disc' it was a single but because it was over 4 min, columbia worried it would not get radio play. Anyway, I have ordered the full version. After all these years, the things I learn on this forum  This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it. -Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Joshua Painter Played by Senator Fred Thompson | |||
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I may still have it on cassette! A classic. | |||
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Funny thing about this song, despite knowing every other song on the album well as a kid, I have no recollection of this song until I was an "adult". Maybe my dad just didn't like it? lol _____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911. | |||
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The extra verse would have been the 5th, he shows some remorse over shooting the guy: Just for a moment I stood there in silence Shocked by the foul evil deed I had done Many thoughts raced through my mind as I stood there I had but one chance and that was to run This 4:43 live version includes the extra verse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAO7vs_Q9is | |||
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It may just be my fuzzy memory, but I swear I remember hearing (in an interview) the shorter version was just that, made shorter for the radio. _____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911. | |||
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I Deal In Lead |
I used to have this album until my divorce when the soon to be ex-wife stole it and a bunch of other stuff. | |||
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