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