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