McCaslin Blue - Oklahoma Starr Lyrics

I'm lying in the snow
While my horse is riding off
Dear Pearl where'd ya go
My darling girl I'm gone
I was trying to head on back
Where I's safe at younger's bend
Some bastard stopped my tracks
I'm betting we were friends
A rifle cracked behind me
Coward left me for dead
If I'd had seen him coming
He'd be in my place instead
It's a fine day to die
I'm sure that's what they'll say
Bet she put up quite a fight
Now she's buried in the clay
The Bandit Queen is gone
But she didn't go too far
Just look out at the dawn
For the Oklahoma star
I guess I'll see my husband Sam
James will be there too
See the blood on my hands
Turn from red to brown to blue
The papers wrote about me
And my rough and rowdy ways
They made up all these stories
But I didn't mind the fame
It's a fine day to die
I'm sure that's what they'll say
Bet she put up quite a fight
Now she's buried in the clay
The Bandit Queen is gone
But she didn't go too far
Just look out at the dawn
For the Oklahoma star
This life of mine is finally done
And I don't regret a thing
I've been good and bad and had to run
But now I get my wings
It's a fine day to die
I'm sure that's what they'll say
Bet she put up quite a fight
Now she's buried in the clay
The Bandit Queen is gone
But she didn't go too far
Just look out at the dawn
For the Oklahoma star