I was known as Blackie's gunman   The best two 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, it was 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