This classic 1959 Marty Robbins ballad was first released on the album Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs. The song won a Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording in 1961 and was quite popular on pop music charts as well. The song speaks of a cowboy who falls in love in El Paso, and defends her honor in a gun duel. After said duel, our narrator flees from El Paso (fearing death or imprisonment), steals a horse, and hides out in the badlands of New Mexico. Eventually the song describes the narrator returning to El Paso, only to be attacked by a posse of acquaintances of the man he shot in the duel. At his dying breath, he confirms that he sees his El Paso love, Faleena, and dies in her arms. The song has been known as one of Marty Robbins’ greatest songs and reached the country and pop music charts number #1 spot in 1960.