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