Nat King Cole - Ballad Of Cat Ballou
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| Ballad Of Cat Ballou |
5/20/2006 2:46:34 AM |
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aibc98
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Here is my version:
1)
Well now friends just lend an ear
For you're now about to hear
The ballad of Cat Ballou.
It's a song that's newly made
And Professor Sam the Shade,
And the Sunrise Kid are singin' it for you
Cat Ballou, Cat Ballou, Cat Ballou!
It's a hangin' day in Wolf City, Wyaomin'
Wolf City, Wyaomin', eighteen ninety four
They're gonna drop Cat Ballou
Through the gallows floor.
NKC: “She killed a man in Wolf City, Wyaomin'
Wolf City, Wyaomin', killed a man it's true”
Both: And that is why they are hangin'
Hangin' Cat Ballou
REFRAIN:
NKC: “She has the smile of an angel”
SK: ”fights like the devil”
NKC: ”The eyes of an angel”
SK: ”bites like the devil”
NKC: ”the face of an angel”
SK: “I say she's the devil”
Both: she's mean and evil through and through
Cat Ballou, Cat Ball-ou-ou-ou
She's mean and evil through and through
2)
Cat Ballou she lived
In Wolf City in Wyaomin’
And folks here in Wyaomin’
Lived high off the hook
And that brand new firm in ???
Sends them the catalog..
NKC: “It’s their right uptown!”
SK: “Yeah, yeah”
NKC: “With kind, wonderful people”
SK: “O,o,o?”
NKC: “Reliable people”
SK: “Sure”
NKC: “Friendly as can be”
SK: “So they say”
NKC: “When you say how did they mean it”
SK: “Ha!”
NKC: “Yep, they are neighborly”
SK: “Yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap…”
REFRAIN:
NKC: “If only Cat had behaved …”
SK: “These folks would befriend her!”
NKC: “If Cat had behaved…”
SK: “Their hearts they would lend her!”
NKC: “But CaT was betrayed …”
SK: “To hell now they’ll send her!”
Both: she could have lived like others do.
Cat Ballou, Cat Ballou, she’s mean and evil through and through.
3)
Then there came to town
A gun deadly at fighting,
a gun quicker than lightning,
fastest gun you’ve seen.
It was the gun in the hand of killer Kid Sheleen.
Just one look at him,
Have folks started to ???
Wild, wild as a cougar
Proud and fierce and mean
There was no man who was tougher,
Tough as Kid Sheleen.
REFRAIN:
NKC: “ He had the eyes of a killer”
SK: “Cold as a devil”
NKC: “the look of a killer”
SK: “the look of the devil”
NKC: “the face of a killer”
SK: “That man was the devil”
Both: Just wild, and ???, and mean.
SK: “Kid Sheleen”
NKC: “Kid Sheleeeen,”
Both: The fastest gun you’ve ever seen.
SLOW
There are tears in her eyes, but they can’t make her cry.
There are tears wrapped in her heart, but they can’t make her cry.
She’s lost all the kin that she’s know and tears will turn into stone.
Makes no difference how they try, they’ll never make her cry.
It’s not very hard to live, when you are little girl.
It’s not very hard to live, when you are never ????
But they made the little girl feel
Like a woman made of steel
Makes no difference how they try,
They’ll never make her cry.
FAST
They’ll never make her cry.
When you’ve got no tears,
Then you’ve got to do something
Hate really’s something
Blood is what you need
(They’ll never make her cry)
And Cat Ballou made her mind up
To make this country weep.
Makes no difference how they try,
They’ll never make her cry.
4)
With her outlaw band they're now tellin' a story
Now tellin' a story how she rode the plain
The wildest gal in the we-est
Since calamity jane
And today's the day that she's goin' to glory
She's goin' to glory for the way she sinned
They'll be a-speedin' her soul
On a wayward wind
She has the smile of an angel
(fights like the devil)
The eyes of an angel
(bites like the devil)
The face of an angel
(I say she's the devil)
(she's mean and evil through and through)
Cat Ballou (Cat Ballou)
Cat Ball-ou-ou-ou (Cat Ballou)
She's mean and evil through and through
Cat Ballou, Cat Ball-ou-ou-ou
She's mean and evil through and through.
I am missing a few words, please correct and send back to me at aibc_98@yahoo.com.
Regards,
L.S. |
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