"Eight lovers they say combed your waving black hair
Eight men knew the feel of your dark velvet wais
Eight men heard the sounds of your tan leather skirt
Eight men heard the bark of the guns that you wore"

Poor Belle Starr 8 lovers, coludn't hold on to some of them & couldn't keep the others from dying. The funerals must've been very family/friend oriented with muost of the hubby/lovers either sharing the same blood or at the very least the same bloody history. Is Belle the one who coined "Beter to have loved & lost than...". Barry