I have also heard the song. Here are some lyrics I remember:

In a mining town on the great divide,
while the men dug silver from the Matchless Mine,
their women folk ran to and fro
spreading the gossip of Baby Doe.

The scandal soon spread near and far
of the girl who danced at the Silver Star
and the gentleman who dressed so fine
known as Tabor and he owned the mine.

While the miners kept working,
their women kept smirking
and Tabor was loving his sweet Baby Doe.

They laughed and threw his money away,
until he was dropping a thousand a day,
and then one day the mine shut down
and Mister Tabor rolled out of town.

When the miners quit working,
their women quit smirking
and Tabor walked out on his sweet Baby Doe.

Poor Baby Doe died all alone,
without a friend to call her own.
They found her dead in a mining shack
where she was a-waiting for him to come back.

While the wind was a-sighing,
Baby Doe lay a-dying
and that's the sad story of sweet Baby Doe.