The Felice Brothers – Diamond Bell (Guitar)

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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

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Diamond Bell

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Where are you now?

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Over the meadow

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And through the trees

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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"

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Then turning with a grin she says to me

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"We're going on a Kansas killing spree"

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Diamond Bell

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Where are you now?

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Over the meadow

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And through the trees

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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

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Surrounded by a dozen volunteers

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And it took me all my strength to fight the tears

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Fight the tears

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Diamond Bell

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Where are you now?

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Over the meadow

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And through the trees

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Well there's Mexican girls who sing and tell

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Songs of the bandit Diamond Bell

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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

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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

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I've become

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Diamond Bell

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Where are you now?

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Over the meadow

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And through the trees