El Dorado

(Three, four)

Did you ever make it back to El Dorado?
I’d call and ask, but hell if I know
If I still got your number or if you care
You moved away when you was younger
Was it escape or was it hunger?
Kansas ain’t no place to be a man
You used to say you’d settle down
But that kind girl from school in town
She was gone before you got back home

To El Dorado, hell if I know if you’re still alive
There’s a note in the glovebox in your drive
El Dorado, hell if they know the difference in a hero
And a man I wish was still by my side

Seventeen years old
How our grins look scary brave
My mama always said we look so handsome when we shave

You used to say: If not you, then who?
And you’d go a thousand times or two
Now your name’s up on a sign in El Dorado driving through

In El Dorado, hell if I know if you’re still alive
There’s a note in the glovebox in your drive
El Dorado, hell if they know the difference in a hero
And a man I wish was still by my side
You’re in every last memory alive

And I called last week to talk to my favorite old devil dog
They told me he had finally headed home