Belle Starr - Joni Harms

Miss Myra Mabel Shirley was raised up in Missouri

Taught to be a lady

But she loved to shoot and ride

Her family moved to Texas runnin' from the Yankees

In a velvet dress she'd ride through town shootin' at the sky

She loved to drink and gamble and play her old piano

Raise a rucus like the west had never seen

She'd steal your horse not your cattle

And she always rode side saddle

Dallas came to love the bandit queen

She married several gun men but a great big Cherokee Indian

Was the one whose name she chose to be her own

Bell star to all us outlaws from Texas back to Arkansas

We hid out in the rollin' hills of her Oklahoma home

We loved to drink and gamble she'd play her old piano

Raise a rucus like the west had never seen

She'd steal your horse not your cattle

And she always rode side saddle

Dallas came to love the bandit queen

She knew the James gang and the Youngers

And a shotgun put her under

Fired by Edgar Watson a coward not a man

Her sweet daughter tried to save her

But the Dallas mornin' paper said

They buried her in a pine box with her pistol in her hand

Oh

She loved to drink and gamble

And play her old piano

Raise a rucus like the west had never seen

She'd steal your horse not your cattle

And she always rode side saddle

Dallas will always love the bandit queen

Oh

And Dallas will always love that bandit queen