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