The chipmunks ragtime cowboy joe lyrics

RAGTIME COWBOY JOE

 (Grant Clarke, Lewis Muir and Maurice Abrahams)

 

 Out in Arizona where the bad men are,

 And the only friend to guide you is an Evening Star,

 The roughest, toughest man by far

 Is Ragtime Cowboy Joe.

 Got his name from singing to the cows and sheep

 Every night they say he sings the herd to sleep

 In a basso rich and deep,

 Crooning soft and low

 

 cho: How he sings raggy music to his cattle

 As he swings back and forward in his saddle

 On his horse (a pretty good horse)

 Who is syncopated gaited

 And with such a funny meter

 To the roar of his repeater

 

 How they run when they hear the feller's gun

 Because the western folks all know:

 He's a hifalootin' scootin', shootin'

 Son-of-a-gun from Arizona

 Ragtime cowboy (talk about your cowboy)

 Ragtime cowboy Joe.

 

 Dressed up ev'ry Sunday in his Sunday clothes

 He beats it for the village where he always goes,

 And ev'ry girl in town is Joe's

 'Cause he's a ragtime bear;

 When he starts a-spieling on the dance hall floor,

 No one but a lunatic would start a war

 Wise men know his forty-four

 Makes men dance for fair.

 

 Note: Written in 1912; revived in 1943 in an Alis Faye movie "Hello,

 Frisco, Hello" and by Betty Hutton, 1945, in "Incendiary Blonde." The

 folk seem to have followed their usual practice of remembering the

 chorus and forgetting the verse. Grant Clarke, who wrote the words,

 is also responsible for "Second Hand Rose", among others. RG