Belle Starr Lyrics

The song Belle Starr is performed by Pete Seeger in the album named Link in the Chain in the year 1996 .



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?



Pete Seeger - Link in the Chain

Sep 1996

  1. Living In The Country
  2. My Oklahoma Home Blowed Away (Previously Unreleased)
  3. Get Up And Go
  4. Oh, Had I A Golden Thread
  5. Never Wed An Old Man
  6. Queen Anne Front
  7. Cryderville Jail
  8. Waist Deep In The Big Muddy
  9. This Land Is Your Land
  10. Draft Dodger Rag
  11. The Pill
  12. Where Have All The Flowers Gone?
  13. My Name Is Liza Kalvelage
  14. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)
  15. Guantanamera
  16. Last Train To Nuremberg
  17. Keep Your Eyes On The Prize
  18. Oh, Freedom
  19. We Shall Overcome
  20. Coal Creek March
  21. Pretty Boy Floyd
  22. Hobo's Lullaby
  23. Aimee Semple McPherson
  24. The Cowboy's Lament
  25. Jesse James
  26. Belle Starr
  27. Harry Sims
  28. Mrs. McGrath
  29. Jay Gould's Daughter
  30. Nameless Lick
  31. What Did You Learn In School Today?
  32. Henry My Son
  33. Put Your Finger In The Air
  34. Michael Row The Boat Ashore
  35. This Old Car
  36. Be Kind To Your Parents
  37. Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase
  38. This Land Is Your Land

Belle Starr