WHATEVER HAPPENED TO RANDOLPH SCOTT?
Recorded by The Statler Brothers
Written by Don Reid and Harold Reid

[G] Ev'rybody knows when you [G7] go to the show,
You [C] can't take the kids a-[G] long.
You've gotta read the paper and know the code
Of [A7] G, PG and R [D] and X,
And you [G] gotta know what the [G7] movie's about
Be-[C] fore you even [G] go.
Tex [C] Ritter's gone and [G] Disney's [E7] dead.
The [A7] screen is [D] filled with [G] sex.

CHORUS
[G] Whatever happened to [B7] Randolph Scott
[C] Ridin' the trail a- [G] lone?
Whatever happened to Gene and Tex
And [A7] Roy and Rex, the Du- [D] rango Kid?
Oh, [G] whatever happened to [B7] Randolph Scott
His [C] horse, plain as could be? [G]
[C] Whatever happened to [G] Randolph [E7] Scott
Has [A7] happened to the [D] best of [G] me.

Ev'rybody's tryin' to make a comment
About our doubts and fears.
True Grit's the only movie
I've really understood in years.
You gotta take your analyst along
To see if it's fit to see.
Whatever happened to Randolph Scott
Has happened to the industry.

CHORUS

Whatever happened to Johnny Mack Brown
And Alan "Rocky" Lane?
Whatever happened to Lash LaRue?
I'd love to see them again.
Whatever happened to Smiley Burnett,
Tim Holt and Gene Autry?
Whatever happened to all of these
Has happened to the best of me.
Whatever happened to Randolph Scott
Has happened to the industry.