Help identify song about a girl who played with a deck of cards cause she didn't have dolls.

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Looking for a friend who posted this somewhere else:

'Many years ago, I made a CD of playing card-related songs. I found a song I never heard before. It was a ballad about a little girl in the old west who, the story goes, didn’t have any dolls to play with, so she played with a deck of cards and made up stories about the face cards.

She grows up and falls in love with the local bandit/no-good young man named something like the Jack of Spades/Hearts/etc. even though he was the villain in her stories growing up. They ride off together as the posse hunts the Jack and, if I recall correctly, the Jack lets her take a bullet for him as he escapes.

I have searched for all sorts of variants of song titles “Jack of Spades/Hearts/etc.” as well as searching on the story elements, but no avail.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!"

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Country ballad? Folk ballad? Jazz ballad? Broadway show tune? What style was the piece?

Male singer or female?

ETA: Bob Dylan - Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts; covered by Joan Baez?

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Great song, but not it

Friend says it’s a mix between country western song and folk

Thinks it’s a male, but not sure at all

Says “like if Peter, Paul, and Mary did the ballad of the one eyed jack”