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.