The common chord progression for Marty Robbins El Paso is D Em A7 D spelling DEAD
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Number one with a bullet up the charts in 1960
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It is also a ii-V-I progression, one of the most common in all of music, so I’d bet on this being a coincidence
Probably, that's why it's only mildly amusing
Fair enough