The Felice Brothers - Diamond Bell lyrics

[Verse 1] 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 Till I ran and I stumbled and I fell In love with the bandit Diamond Bell [Chorus] Diamond Bell Where are you now? Over the meadow And through the trees [Verse 2] For 7 long months we rode the trail Camping out along the union rail Twas all in the merry month of May When we landed a job to k** a judge in Ca**oday 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 k**ing spree" [Chorus] Diamond Bell Where are you now? Over the meadow And through the trees [Verse 3] Well the courtroom gallery was full When she put a bullet through the judges 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 [Chorus] Diamond Bell Where are you now? Over the meadow And through the trees [Verse 4] 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 [Chorus] Diamond Bell Where are you now? Over the meadow And through the trees