Lyr/Tune ADD: Cow Patti (Jim Stafford)

03 May 98 - 10:30 PM (#27167)
Subject: Cow Patty , Adventures of
From: [e-mail]

Ballad of the adventures of Cow Patty slaying the bad guy is not on the database in any format or spelling. Does any collector of Western lore have the words and music. Friend needs it for Western gigs. Private tape by forgotten artist purchased @ Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Saslmon, ID 1987. Lost it. Thanx

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04 May 98 - 12:47 AM (#27178)
Subject: RE: cow patty 2
From:

check at Jen's Underground Lyrics site: use www.yahoo.com to find URL....if not listed in index/email Jen

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04 May 98 - 04:11 AM (#27190)
Subject: Lyr Add: COW PATTI (Jim Stafford)
From: Joe Offer

Sure enough, it was at Jen's. You may want to e-mail Jen for details.


COW PATTI
(Jim Stafford, 1991)

From the badlands came the killer
He lived by the knife and the gun
He'd cut you just for standing
And shoot you if you tried to run
He was as big as a tree, and he did as he pleased
And everything he did was bad
They said if you was to kill him
It'd only make him mad.

From the goodlands came the cowgirl
Patti was her name
She was hot on the trail of that killer
On a moped she called Flame
'Cause the killer had killed her daddy
Just for spittin' in the road
And you only had to kill her daddy once
To get that girl p.o.'d.

CHORUS:
Yippee-i-ay Cow Patti
Yippee-i-ay Cow Patti
She rode into town to find the man
That killed her daddy
Yippee-i-ay Cow Patti

The killer hit town at daybreak
Ate the door off the local saloon
He started to drink
You could tell he was thinkin' there'll be a showdown soon
Patti hit town in a cloud of dust
Old Flame was buzzin' like a saw
And the whole town got as quiet as a church
When the killer stepped out for the draw.

Forty shots rang out
Forty people fell
Patti and the killer missed each other
But they shot that town to hell.
CHORUS

The killer took a step toward Patti
Said, "It's time I gunned you down"
But he slipped in something that was laying in the street
And was shot before he hit the ground.
Yes, the killer slipped and it cost him his life
And Patti said as she roared out of town,
"You got to watch your step, when you know the chips are down."
CHORUS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yixAms5vj-k

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04 May 98 - 04:16 PM (#27250)
Subject: RE: cow patty 2
From: dick greenhaus

See what I mean about the Mudcat Forum, Dick?

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04 May 98 - 04:52 PM (#27254)
Subject: RE: cow patty 2
From: Bert

Wasn't the artist Johnny Duncan?

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04 May 98 - 06:32 PM (#27276)
Subject: RE: cow patty 2
From: Nathan

Aren't you using the term "artist" rather loosely?

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04 May 98 - 09:48 PM (#27298)
Subject: RE: cow patty 2
From: gatyam gal

I think the ARTIST was (and still is) Jim Stafford of "Spiders and Snakes" fame.

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25 Apr 24 - 12:39 PM (#4201602)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: Cow Patti
From: Joe Offer

And now, in the 21st Century, we can supply a YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yixAms5vj-k.

Re-recorded in 2002 by Jim Stafford, the songwriter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI2h6YHpIWY

Enjoy!!

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