[Intro]
(Three, four)

[Verse 1]
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

[Chorus]
To El Dorado, hell if I know if you're still alive
There's a note in the glove box of your drive
El Dorado, hell if they know the difference in a hero
And a man I wish was still by my side

[Verse 2]
Seventeen years old
How our grins look scary bravе
My mama always said we look so handsome when wе shave

[Verse 3]
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 drivin' through
[Chorus]
In El Dorado, hell if I know if you're still alive
There's a note in the glove box 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

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