The Death Of Dora Hand chords by Frank Turner

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 4th

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Capo 4

Intro:  C majorC

Verse 1:

C majorC               FF      C majorC
Dora Hand was a singer in the New York operetta
                   G+G
Born into Boston old money, and Paristrained
      C majorC                        FF      C majorC
Dressed in black, she was a classic beauty but cursed with constitution sickly
                 G+G        C majorC
She ventured West to breathe the fresh air on the Plains
                     FF        C majorC
She ended up down in Dodge City, it was a cowtown, dry and ugly
                      G+G
She hid her past, took Fannie Keenan for a name
     C majorC                    FF       C majorC
Took the stage as a Vaudeville singer at the Lady Gay and the Alhambra
               G+G        C majorC
The cowboys loved her and she quickly rose to fame

Chorus:
    FF          DmDm
Sing a song, boys, for Dora Hand
  C majorC                FF
She brought a little beauty to this hard and barren land
     DmDm             G+G
Doff your caps, boys, though saved or damned
     C majorC
For Dora Hand


Verse 2:
      C majorC                 FF        C majorC
Now to the Dodge folk she was an Angel, they called her Lady Bountiful By day, and "Queen Of Fairy Belles"
  G+G
by night
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She was bringing in good money, so she gave plenty to the needy
                 G+G          C majorC
She sure could sing, but she sure knew her wrong from right
                      FF        C majorC
Now lovely Dora, she took the fancy of that mayor, James Dog Kelley
                      G+G
Like many a man before him, he was heard to say
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"That there Dora is a beautiful creature, she gives men a strange nostalgia
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Dreams of finer things and better days"

Chorus:
     FF          DmDm
So sing a song, boys, for Dora Hand
  C majorC                FF
She brought a little beauty to this hard and barren land
    DmDm             G+G
Dream a dream, boys, of a promised land
    C majorC
Of Dora Hand


Bridge:
  A minorAm                     E minorEm
Now young Spike Kennedy came up from Texas on a rolling black thunder cloud
     DmDm                           A minorAm
He was a-whooping and a-whoring and a-drowning in whiskey like a one-man bad luck crowd
  A minorAm                        E minorEm
One night he saw Dora singing at the Alhambra and he tried to slip the lady a kiss
  DmDm                            A minorAm
Dog Kelley got angry and he knocked him on his belly with one flick of his Kansas wrist
     DmDm            E minorEm              A minorAm       G+G      FF
Well now Spike, he got mad, he was looking out for blood, he was raging like the Devil's stepson
  DmDm               E minorEm             A minorAm      G+G     FF
He rode out to the cabin which the mayor used for napping on a horse with a loaded six-gun
  DmDm            E minorEm              A minorAm     G+G      FF
He fired in the dark, but he didn't hit his mark when the bullet went through that wall
    DmDm            E minorEm         A minorAm  G+G    A minorAm
Kelley wasn't in his bed, lying there in his stead, Dora Hand was killed


Guitar Solo:
C majorC FF C majorC G+G C majorC G+G C majorC FF C majorC G+G FF C majorC G+G C majorC


Verse 3:
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So the marshals, they raised a posse, and they caught up with young Spike Kenedy
                     G+G
His daddy bought him free, even though he confessed
      A minorAm            FF         C majorC
All Dodge City wept for Dora, every bar closed as they buried her
           G+G        C majorC
Four hundred cowboys rode her to her rest


Chorus:
    FF              DmDm
Sing a song, boys, with the funeral band
C majorC                  FF
We won't see her like again in this hard and barren land
     DmDm           G+G
Wave her off, boys, to no man's land
   FF
Dora Hand
     C majorC
Our Dora Hand