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

kansas

I never had a running with the law

Till I ran and I stumbled and I fell

In love with the bandit Diamond Bell



Diamond Bell

Where are you now?

Over the meadow

And through the trees



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 kill a judge in Cassoday

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 killing spree"



Diamond Bell

Where are you know?

Over the meadow

And through the trees



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



Diamond bell

Where are you now?

Over the meadow

And throught the trees



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



Diamond Bell

Where are you now?

Over the meadow

And through the trees