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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.