Key: G
Introduction:
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I was known as Blackie's gunman, the best of gunman in the land
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I could shoot the ace of diamonds with a draw from either hand
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With the dice I had no equal, some of them are with us now,
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most of them are sadly sleeping 'neath the weeping willow bough.
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Many a cowboy's game I've played in, left that night with all their gold,
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as a sport I was broken, as a sport I let it go.
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I once loved a girl named Nellie, how we loved no tongue can tell,
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but I know I'll never meet her, oh t’was hard to say farewell.
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Her eyes were like the deep blue water, and her hair was golden curls,
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and her cheeks were crimson velvet and her teeth were snow white pearls.
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Together we lived in a cottage, and our life it was a dream,
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and the angels they watched o'er us, made our life one happy dream.