Belle Starr
Pete Seeger

Belle Starr, Belle Starr, tell me where you have gone
Since old Oklahoma's sand hills you did roam?
Is it heaven's wide streets that you're tying your reins
Or single footing somewhere below?

Eight lovers they say combed your waving black hair
Eight men knew the feel of your dark velvet waist
Eight men heard the sounds of your tan leather skirt
Eight men heard the bark of the guns that you wore

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

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

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

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

You loved Mr. William Clarke Quantrill
And his Civil War guerrillas in the Missouri hills
He hit Lawrence, Kansas and fought them still
And when he rode out, two hundred lay killed

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

They say it could be, they say maybe so
That you loved Jesse James, that desperado
Jesse got married, had a wife and a son
Was shot down at home by the Ford brothers' guns

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

Eight men they say combed that waving black hair
Eight men knew the feel of your dark velvet waist
Eight men heard the sounds of your tan leather skirt
Eight men heard the bark of the guns that you wore

Belle Starr, Belle Starr, tell me where you have gone
Since old Oklahoma's sand hills you did roam?
Is it heaven's wide streets that you're tying your reins
Or single footing somewhere below?


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Lyrics by Pete Seeger

  Abiyoyo [#]   Adam The Inventor   All My Children Of The Sun   All My Trials   Alleluya   America, The Beautiful   Arrange And Re-Arrange   Ballad Of The Fort Hood Three   Banks Of Marble   Banks of the Ohio   Barbara Allen [Live]   Battle Of New Orleans   Be Kind to Your Parents   Billy Barlow   Blow The Man Down   Both Sides Now   Bring Them Home   Bring Them Home (If You Love Your Uncle Sam)   Business   Camptown Races   Camptown Races [Gwine to Run All Night]   Cement Octopus   De Colores   Die Gedanken Sind Frei   Down By The River   Down by the Riverside [African American Spiritual]   Draft Dodger Rag   English Is Cuh-ray-zee   False From True   Foggy Dew   From Way Up Here   Go Tell Aunt Rhodie   God Bless The Grass   Goodnight, Irene [Irene, Goodnight]   Guantanamera (Live)   Henry My Son   Hobo's Lullaby   Hobo's Lullaby   House Of The Rising Sun   How Can I Keep From Singing   I Ride An Old Paint   I've Been Working On The Railroad   I’ve Been Working On The Railroad   If I Had A Hammer (Album Version)   If This World Survives   It Really Isn't Garbage   Jackaro   Jacob's Ladder   Jarama Valley   John Brown's Body   John Henry   John Riley   John Riley [Pretty Fair Maid] [the Broken Token] [...   King Henry   Last Train To Nuremberg   Letter To Eve   Little Boxes   Little Fat Baby   Living In The Country   Mastinchele Wachipi Olewan   Michael Row The Boat Ashore   Michael Row The Boat Ashore (Live)   Michael, Row the Boat Ashore   Molly Malone   My Dentist Has Tattooed Legs   My Father's Mansion's Many Rooms   My Name Is Liza Kalvelage   My Rainbow Race   No Irish Need Apply   Now We Sit Us Down   Ode To A Composer Bach At Treblinka   Oh Susanna [#]   Oh What A Beautiful City   Oh, I Had A Golden Thread   Oh, What a Beautiful City!   Old Devil Time   Old Joe Clark [#]   One Grain Of Sand   Or Else   Our Generation   Peg And Awl   Preicious Friend   Queen Anne Front   Quite Early Morning   Quite Early Morning [*]   River   River Song   Roll On, Columbia   Shenandoah   Skip to My Lou   Snow Snow   Solartopia   Song Of The World's Last Whale   Summertime   Take It From DrKing   Talking Ben Tre   Talking Union   Teacher Uncle Ho   The Ballad of Ira Hayes   The Bells of Rhymney   The Bells of Rhymney [#]   The Dying Miner   The Fox   The House of the Rising Sun   The River That Flows Both Ways   The Torn Flag   The Water Is Wide   The Wreck of the Old 97   The Wreck of the Old 97   There'll Come A Day   Throw Away That Shad Net   Throw Away That Shad Net (How Are We Gonna Save To...   Tomorrow's Children   Turn, Turn, Turn   Tzena Tzena Tzena   Tzena, Tzena, Tzena   Uncle Ho   Union Maid   Waist Deep In The Big Muddy   Walking Down Death Row   Walking Down Death Row [*]   Water Is Wide (O Waly Waly)   We Shall Not Be Moved   We Shall Overcome   We Will Love Or We Will Perish   When Johnny Comes Marching Home   Where Have All The Flowers Gone   Where Have All The Flowers Gone?   Which Side Are You On?   Wimoweh (Mbube)   Wimoweh (Mbube) [Live]   Wonderful Friends   Words Words Words

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