Ragtime Cowboy Joe - The Chipmunks

Ragtime Cowboy Joe
lyrics by Grant Clarke, music by Lewis F. Muir and Maurice Abrahams. 
© 1912, F.A. Mills, 122 W. 36th St, New York

C           Cdim            C       F7

Out in Ar-i-zon-a where the bad men are

        C              A7              D7   G7

And the on-ly thing to guide you is an Eve-'ning star

Gaug C          Cdim      C   E7 Am     D9       G       C

The  rough-est, tough-est man by far is Rag-time Cow-boy Joe

G                 Gdim            G        C7

Got his name from sing-in’ to the cows and sheep

G                E7               A9   D7 G

Ev'ry night they say he sings the herd to sleep

C    Cdim   C    E7  Am   B7                 Em   G7

In a bass-o rich and deep croon-in' soft and low.

CHORUS

           C

He al-ways sings rag-gy mu-sic to the cat-tle

      D7

As he swings back and for-ward in the sad-dle

     G7

On a horse that is syn-co-pat-ed, gait-ed, 

            C             Am            D7             G7

And there's such a fun-ny me-ter to the roar of his re-peat-er

         C                  

How they run when hear that fel-low's gun

            D7

Because the West-ern folks all know

E7     Am    

He's a high-fa-lut-ing, scoot-ing, shoot-ing

                       D7b5  C   A7   D9  G7  C

Son-of-a-gun from Ar-i-zo-na Rag-time Cow-boy Joe.

He dressed up ev'ry Sun-day in his Sun-day clothes

He beats it for the vil-lage where he al-ways goes

And ev'ry girl in town is Joe's 'cause he's a rag-time bear.

When he starts a-spieling on the dance hall floor

No one but a lun-a-tic would start a war

Wise men know his fo-rty four makes men dance for fair.

CHORUS