Belle Starr chords by Pete Seeger

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Verse 1
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 (C major) Belle Starr, Belle Starr,
F 
tell me  (F major) where you have gone
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Since  (G major) old Oklahoma's sand
C 
hills you did  (C major) roam?
Is it heaven's wide streets
F 
that you're  (F major) ty ing your reins
G 
C 
Or  (G major) single footing somewhere be (C major) low?

Verse 2
C 
Eight lovers they  (C major) say combed
F 
your  (F major) waving black hair
G 
Eight  (G major) men knew the feel
C 
of your dark velvet  (C major) waist
Eight men heard the sounds
F 
of your  (F major) tan leather skirt
G 
Eight  (G major) men heard the bark of the
C 
guns that you  (C major) wore

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Verse 3

Cole Younger was your first and the

father of your girl

And the name that you picked

for your daughter was Pearl

Cole robbed a bank and he

drawed the life line

But I heard he was pardoned

after twenty years time

Verse 4
C 
Your  (C major) Cherokee lover,
F 
Blue  (F major) Duck was his name
G 
He  (G major) loved you in the sand hills
C 
before your great  (C major) fame
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C 
F 
I  (G major) heard he stopped a  (C major) bullet in  (F major) 1885
G 
C 
And your  (G major) Blue Duck's no longer alive  (C major) 

Verse 5
C 
You took Jim  (C major) Reed to your
F 
 (F major) warm wedding bed
G 
And from  (G major) out of your love
C 
was born the boy,  (C major) Ed
A pal killed Jim Reed by the
F 
 (F major) dark of the moon
G 
And your  (G major) son Ed was blowed down
in a drunken saloon
C 
 (C major) 

Verse 6
Then there was Bob Younger,
F 
you  (F major) loved him so well
G 
 (G major) He rode with the James Boys
C 
out on the long trail  (C major) 
Well, they caught him in Minnesota
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C 
along  (F major)  (C major) with the gang
F 
G 
 (F major) And he died  (G major) down in jail
C 
in the cell or the  (C major) chain

Verse 7
C 
You loved Mr.  (C major) William
F 
G 
 (F major) Clarke  (G major) Quantrill
And his Civil War guerrillas
C 
in the Missouri hill (C major) s
He hit Lawrence,
F 
Kansas and  (F major) fought them still
G 
And  (G major) when he rode out,
C 
two hundred lay  (C major) killed

Verse 8
F 
They say you could have, they  (F major) 
whispered you might
G 
Have  (G major) loved Frank James on
C 
a couple of  (C major) nights
He fought the Midland Railroad
F 
 (F major) almost to death
G 
Then in  (G major) 1915 Frank drawed
C 
his last  (C major) breath

Verse 9
F 
They say it could be, they  (F major) 
say maybe so
G 
That you  (G major) loved Jesse James,
that desperado
C 
F 
 (C major) Jesse got married, had a  (F major) wife and a son
G 
Was shot  (G major) down at home by
C 
the Ford brothers' gun (C major) s

Verse 10
F 
Belle Starr, Belle Starr, your  (F major) 
time's getting late
G 
But  (G major) how is Jim Younger,
C 
did you hear his  (C major) fate?
He was jailed and then pardoned
F 
for  (F major) all he had done
G 
And he  (G major) blowed out his own brains
C 
in nineteen and  (C major) one

Verse 11
C 
Eight  (C major) men they say combed that
F 
 (F major) waving black hair
G 
Eight  (G major) men knew the feel of your
C 
dark vel (C major) vet waist
Eight men heard the sounds
F 
of your  (F major) tan leather skirt
G 
Eight  (G major) men heard the bark of the
C 
guns that you  (C major) wore

Verse 12
C 
Belle Starr, Belle  (C major) Starr,
F 
tell me  (F major) where you have gone
G 
Since  (G major) old Oklahoma's sand
C 
hills you did  (C major) roam?
Is it heaven's wide streets
F 
that you're  (F major) ty ing your reins
G 
C 
Or  (G major) single footing somewhere be (C major) low?