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