[verse 1]
C
Gather round and a story I will tell
C G C
About the gunslinger Diamond Bell
F G Am
She was the reigning terror of the west
F F/E Dm7 C G
Her vision in a scarlet carriage dress
C
With 30 shining diamonds on her barrel
C G C
Fitted always in a red apparel
F G Am
She revelled more in murder and in gore
F F/E Dm7 C G
Than anyone who's worked the job before
C
I was only a kid from Arkansas
C G C
I never had a run-in with the law
F G Am
Till I ran and I stumbled and I fell
F F/E Dm7 C G F Am
In love with the bandit Diamond Bell
[chorus]
Am G
Diamond Bell
C F
Where are you now?
Dm G
Over the meadow
C Am G
And through the trees
[verse 2]
C
For 7 long months we rode the trail
C G C
Camping out along the union rail
F G Am
Twas all in the merry month of May
F F/E Dm7 C G
When we landed a job to kill a judge in Cassoday
C
She spoke as we trampled through the heat
C G C
She said "the boys from Kansas know I'm hard to beat"
F G Am
Then turning with a grin she says to me
F F/E Dm7 C G F Am
"We're going on a Kansas killing spree"
[chorus]
Am G
Diamond Bell
C F
Where are you now?
Dm G
Over the meadow
C Am G
And through the trees
[verse 3]
C
Well the courtroom gallery was full
C G C
When she put a bullet through the judges skull
F G Am
We made a bold dash across the plain
F F/E Dm7 C G
And bullets flew around us like the rain
C
In a Dodge city hotel I awoke
C G C
I was chained by the ankles to a bedpost
F G Am
Surrounded by a dozen volunteers
F F/E Dm7 C G
And it took me all my strength to fight the tears
F Am
Fight the tears
[chorus]
Am G
Diamond Bell
C F
Where are you now?
Dm G
Over the meadow
C Am G
And through the trees
[verse 4]
C
Well there's Mexican girls who sing and tell
C G C
Songs of the bandit Diamond Bell
F G Am
But of me this is all the song I got
F F/E Dm7 C G
And the law will avenge the men I shot
C
So farewell, I bid you all adieu
C G C
And I'm sorrowful for leaving all of you
F G Am
But a lesson to you all I hope to be
F F/E Dm7 C G
By the telling of this wretched tragedy
C
Well the sun has gone down in the west
C G C
The last beams have faded are the crest
F G Am
Come morning I'll be swinging in the sun
F F/E Dm7 C G
Like the pitiful prisoner I've become
F Am
I've become
[chorus]
Am G
Diamond Bell
C F
Where are you now?
Dm G
Over the meadow
C Am G
And through the trees
