El Dorado

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
With that kind girl from school in town
She was gone before you got back home

El Dorado, hell if I know
If you're still alive
There's a note in the glovebox of 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 momma 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 of 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