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Thread #5363   Message #3198906
Posted By: Jim Dixon
31-Jul-11 - 12:50 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Little Joe (Not The Wrangler)
Subject: Lyr Add: LITTLE JOE (from Marlene Dietrich)
You can see and hear Marlene Dietrich singing LITTLE JOE in a scene from the film "Destry Rides Again" (1939) at YouTube. The lyrics GUEST,Edie posted above are correct as far as they go, but she left out the parts sung by the chorus (which I have put in parentheses):

(Little Joe the wrangler, he will wrangle nevermore
For his days with the roundup they are o'er.
'Twas a year ago last April when he rode up to our camp,
Just a little Texas stray and nothing more.)

Little Joe (Little Joe), Little Joe (Little Joe),
Oh, whatever become of him, I don't know. (She don't know.)
Oh, he sure did like his liquor
And it would have got his ticker
But the sheriff got him quicker. – Yee-ha!

Little Joe (Little Joe), Little Joe (Little Joe),
Oh, wherever his body lies, I don't know. (She don't know.)
When the yellow moon was beamin',
He could wrangle like a demon,
And you'd always hear him screamin': - Yee-ha!

Little Joe (Little Joe), Little Joe (Little Joe),
Oh, whatever he's doing now, I don't know. (She don't know.)
He had women by the dozens
And he swore they was his cousins
Till he met up with their husbands. – Yee-ha!