Текст песни: Belle Starr + перевод

1. 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.

Chorus 1:

She loved to drink and gamble, and play her old piano,

And 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.

2. 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.

Chorus 2:

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

And raise a rucus like the West had never seen,

She’d steal your horse, not your cattle,

She always rode side saddle,

Dallas came to love the bandit queen.

3. 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.»

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Oh! She loved to drink and gamble,

And play her old piano,

And raise a rucus like the West had never seen;

She’d steal your horse, not your cattle,

She always rode side saddle,

Dallas will always love the bandit queen.

Oh! And Dallas will always love that bandit queen!

Перевод песни Belle Starr