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