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