Diamond Bell

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Gather round and a story I will tell
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About the gunslinger Diamond Bell
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She was the reigning terror of the west
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Her vision in a scarlet carriage dress

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With 30 shining diamonds on her barrel
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Fitted always in a red apparel
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She revelled more in murder and in gore
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Than anyone who's worked the job before

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I was only a kid from Arkansas
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I never had a run-in with the law
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Till I ran and I stumbled and I fell
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In love with the bandit Diamond Bell

[Chorus]
Am      G
Diamond Bell
      C       F
Where are you now?
Dm       G
Over the meadow
   C            Am    G
And through the trees

[Verse 2]
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For 7 long months we rode the trail
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Camping out along the union rail
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Twas all in the merry month of May
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When we landed a job to kill a judge in Cassoday

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She spoke as we trampled through the heat
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She said "the boys from Kansas know I'm hard to beat"
      F              G             Am
Then turning with a grin she says to me
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"We're going on a Kansas killing spree"

[Chorus]
Am      G
Diamond Bell
      C       F
Where are you now?
Dm       G
Over the meadow
   C            Am    G
And through the trees

[Verse 3]
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Well the courtroom gallery was full
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When she put a bullet through the judges skull
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We made a bold dash across the plain
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And bullets flew around us like the rain

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In a Dodge city hotel I awoke
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I was chained by the ankles to a bedpost
   F           G           Am
Surrounded by a dozen volunteers
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And it took me all my strength to fight the tears
F         Am
Fight the tears

[Chorus]
Am      G
Diamond Bell
      C       F
Where are you now?
Dm       G
Over the meadow
   C            Am    G
And through the trees

[Verse 4]
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Well there's Mexican girls who sing and tell
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Songs of the bandit Diamond Bell
      F           G           Am
But of me this is all the song I got
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And the law will avenge the men I shot

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So farewell, I bid you all adieu
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And I'm sorrowful for leaving all of you
      F            G            Am
But a lesson to you all I hope to be
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By the telling of this wretched tragedy

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Well the sun has gone down in the west
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The last beams have faded o'er the crest
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Come morning I'll be swinging in the sun
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Like the pitiful prisoner I've become
F    Am
I've become

[Chorus]
Am      G
Diamond Bell
      C       F
Where are you now?
Dm       G
Over the meadow
   C            Am    G
And through the trees