Diamond Bell

Gather 'round and a story I will tell
 About the gunslinger Diamond Bell
 She was the reigning terror of the west
 Her vision in a scarlet carriage dress
 With 30 shining diamonds on her barrel
 Fitted always in a red apparel
 She reveled more in murder and in gore
 Than anyone who's worked the job before
 I was only a kid from Arkansas
 I never had a running with the law
 'Til I ran and I stumbled and I fell
 In love with the bandit Diamond Bell
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 Diamond Bell, where are you now?
 Over the meadow and through the trees
 For seven long months we rode the trail
 Camping out along the union rail
 T'was all in the merry month of May
 When we landed a job to kill a judge in Cassoday
 She spoke as we trampled through the heat
 She said, "The boys from Kansas know I'm hard to beat"
 Then turning with a grin she says to me
 "We're going on a Kansas killing spree"
 Diamond Bell, where are you know?
 Over the meadow and through the trees
 Well, the courtroom gallery was full
 When she put a bullet through the judge's skull
 We made a bold dash across the plane
 And bullets flew around us like the rain
 In a Dodge City hotel I awoke
 I was chained by the ankles to a bedpost
 Surrounded by a dozen volunteers
 And it took me all my strength to fight the tears
 Fight the tears
 Diamond bell, where are you now?
 Over the meadow and throught the trees
 Well, there's Mexican girls who sing and tell
 Songs of the bandit Diamond Bell
 But of me this is all the song I got
 And the law will avenge the men I shot
 So farewell, I bid you all adieu
 And I'm sorrowful for leaving all of you
 But a lesson to you all I hope to be
 By the telling of this wretched tragedy
 Well, the Sun has gone down in the west
 The last beams have faded are the crest
 Come morning I'll be swinging in the Sun
 Like the pitiful prisoner I've become, I've become
 Diamond Bell, where are you now?
 Over the meadow and through the trees