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  1. Cold Ohio City

From the recording Magdalene

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Cold Ohio City
M. Litton

(She was know as the Bluebell of Beau Simone
I clearly do recall
She dazzled ‘em all with her warm and liquid eyes
Blue as the mountain sky above a late evening silhouette
A night with her a mortal man could never forget
In cold Ohio City, Colorado gold mining town...)

The season was late autumn and the wind blew uncommonly hard
As I stepped up to the bar of the “Gold Creek Sporting House”
Where the chorus gals in gowns waved from the balcony
And swarmed about the fair, raven-haired queen
Of cold Ohio City, Colorado gold mining town

She leaned upon the shoulder of a handsome gambler
Name of Beau Simone
The cigar he smoked never left his lips
He wore a pistol on his hip, and silver-plated Spanish spurs
Suffice it to say he was dressed beyond words
In cold Ohio City, Colorado gold mining town

I knew ‘em both by other names from a situation I’ll explain this time
The months now number nine since their whereabouts was known
And a bitter seed had grown
I’d come to play the card of revenge
Against this lady, my wife, and this gentleman, my friend
In cold Ohio City, Colorado gold mining town

I sat down at their table with a Winchester cradled in my arms
All the others drew apart as I called the cheatin’ pair
They straightened in their chairs
But when he went for that ace up his sleeve
Lord, he never knew what hit ‘im
When my hammer hit the breach
In cold Ohio City, Colorado gold mining town

Through Denver the word was spread
Next morning as they read the telegram
It said, “A drifter killed a gambler and his belle
“But the drifter died as well
“For when he knelt at the dying lady’s side
“She shot him with a derringer holstered on her thigh
“In cold Ohio City, Colorado gold mining town...”

(The mining shacks all are gone
As the breezes blow beyond the Great Divide
And where the stream runs behind the old Hickory Mill
Up yonder on a hill
Beneath a lone white Aspen tree
There lay the bones of Bluebell, Beau Simone, and me
In cold Ohio City, Colorado gold mining town...)