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