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
To 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 year
And a man I wish was still by my side
17 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 names 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 year
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 he had finally headed home