Tonart: C major
Verse 1
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Belle Starr, Belle Starr,
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tell me where you have gone
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Since old Oklahoma's sand
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hills you did roam?
Is it heaven's wide streets
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that you're ty ing your reins
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Ab
Or single footing somewhere below?
Verse 2
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Eight lovers they say combed
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your waving black hair
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Eight men knew the feel
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of your dark velvet waist
Eight men heard the sounds
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of your tan leather skirt
Eb
Eight men heard the bark of the
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guns that you wore
Verse 3
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Cole Younger was your first and the
father of your girl
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And the name that you picked
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for your daughter was Pearl
Cole robbed a bank and he
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drawed the life line
Eb
But I heard he was pardoned
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after twenty years time
Verse 4
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Your Cherokee lover,
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Blue Duck was his name
Eb
He loved you in the sand hills
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before your great fame
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Ab
Db
I heard he stopped a bullet in 1885
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Ab
And your Blue Duck's no longer alive
Verse 5
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You took Jim Reed to your
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warm wedding bed
Eb
And from out of your love
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was born the boy, Ed
A pal killed Jim Reed by the
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dark of the moon
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And your son Ed was blowed down
in a drunken saloon
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Verse 6
Then there was Bob Younger,
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you loved him so well
Eb
He rode with the James Boys
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out on the long trail
Well, they caught him in Minnesota
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Ab
along with the gang
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Eb
And he died down in jail
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in the cell or the chain
Verse 7
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You loved Mr. William
Db
Eb
Clarke Quantrill
And his Civil War guerrillas
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in the Missouri hills
He hit Lawrence,
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Kansas and fought them still
Eb
And when he rode out,
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two hundred lay killed
Verse 8
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They say you could have, they
whispered you might
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Have loved Frank James on
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a couple of nights
He fought the Midland Railroad
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almost to death
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Then in 1915 Frank drawed
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his last breath
Verse 9
Db
They say it could be, they
say maybe so
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That you loved Jesse James,
that desperado
Ab
Db
Jesse got married, had a wife and a son
Eb
Was shot down at home by
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the Ford brothers' guns
Verse 10
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Belle Starr, Belle Starr, your
time's getting late
Eb
But how is Jim Younger,
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did you hear his fate?
He was jailed and then pardoned
Db
for all he had done
Eb
And he blowed out his own brains
Ab
in nineteen and one
Verse 11
Ab
Eight men they say combed that
Db
waving black hair
Eb
Eight men knew the feel of your
Ab
dark velvet waist
Eight men heard the sounds
Db
of your tan leather skirt
Eb
Eight men heard the bark of the
Ab
guns that you wore
Verse 12
Ab
Belle Starr, Belle Starr,
Db
tell me where you have gone
Eb
Since old Oklahoma's sand
Ab
hills you did roam?
Is it heaven's wide streets
Db
that you're ty ing your reins
Eb
Ab
Or single footing somewhere below?
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