Intro
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[Verse 1]
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Dora Hand was a singer in the New York operetta
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Born into Boston old money, and Paristrained
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Dressed in black, she was a classic beauty but cursed with constitution sickly
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She ventured West to breathe the fresh air on the Plains
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She ended up down in Dodge City, it was a cowtown, dry and ugly
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She hid her past, took Fannie Keenan for a name
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Took the stage as a Vaudeville singer at the Lady Gay and the Alhambra
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The cowboys loved her and she quickly rose to fame
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Sing a song, boys, for Dora Hand
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She brought a little beauty to this hard and barren land
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Doff your caps, boys, though saved or damned
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For Dora Hand
[Verse 2]
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Now to the Dodge folk she was an Angel, they called her Lady Bountiful By day, and "Queen Of Fairy Belles"
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by night
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She was bringing in good money, so she gave plenty to the needy
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She sure could sing, but she sure knew her wrong from right
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Now lovely Dora, she took the fancy of that mayor, James Dog Kelley
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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"
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So sing a song, boys, for Dora Hand
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She brought a little beauty to this hard and barren land
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Dream a dream, boys, of a promised land
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Of Dora Hand
[Bridge]
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Now young Spike Kennedy came up from Texas on a rolling black thunder cloud
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He was a-whooping and a-whoring and a-drowning in whiskey like a one-man bad luck crowd
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One night he saw Dora singing at the Alhambra and he tried to slip the lady a kiss
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Dog Kelley got angry and he knocked him on his belly with one flick of his Kansas wrist
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Well now Spike, he got mad, he was looking out for blood, he was raging like the Devil's stepson
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He rode out to the cabin which the mayor used for napping on a horse with a loaded six-gun
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He fired in the dark, but he didn't hit his mark when the bullet went through that wall
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Kelley wasn't in his bed, lying there in his stead, Dora Hand was killed
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[Verse 3]
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So the marshals, they raised a posse, and they caught up with young Spike Kenedy
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His daddy bought him free, even though he confessed
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All Dodge City wept for Dora, every bar closed as they buried her
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Four hundred cowboys rode her to her rest
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Sing a song, boys, with the funeral band
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We won't see her like again in this hard and barren land
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Wave her off, boys, to no man's land
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Dora Hand
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Our Dora Hand
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