Song: Cow Patti
Artist: Jim Stafford
Composer: Jim Stafford
Tabbed by DJ
25th Apr 2016
Jim's own version at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpapdB-bCFI
Song starts at [1:00]
Me on guitar with 'The Halloween Hicks' at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrjRMNTtZKY
Am = x02210 Dm = xx0231 G7/D = xx0001
Am/E = 002210 Dm/A = x00231 E7 = 022130
Am/G = 000000 G/B = x20033 E7/B = x22130
C = x32010 G = 320033 F = 133211
C/G = 332010 G7 = 320001 E = 022100
Emphasise the alternating bass notes.
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[Intro]
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am/G Am Am/E Am Am/E Am/G
e |-----|----0---0---0---------|----0----0----0-------|
B |-----|----1---1---1---------|----1----1----1-------|
G |-----|----2---2---2---------|----2----2----2-------|
D |-----|----2---2---2---------|----2----2----2-------|
A |-----|--0-------0-----------|--0---------0---------|
E |-0-3-|------0--------0---3--|------0--------0---3--|
[Verse 1]
Am Am/E Am Am/E
From the badlands ...came the killer,
Am Am/E C C/G C C/G
He lived by the knife and the gun,
Dm Dm/A G/B G
Shoot ya just for standing,
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E
And cut ya if you tried to run!
[Verse 2]
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E
He was big as a tree,
Am Am/E
And he did as he pleased,
Am Am/E C C/G C C/G
And everything he did was bad,
Dm Dm/A G/B G
They said if you was to kill him,
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E
It'd only make him mad!
[Verse 3]
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E
From the goodlands ...came the cowgirl,
Am Am/E C C/G C C/G
Patti was her name,
Dm Dm/A G/B G
Hot on the trail of that killer,
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E
On a Moped she called 'Flame!'
[Verse 4]
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E
'Cause the killer had killed her Daddy,
Am Am/E C C/G C C/G
Just for spittin' in the road,
Dm Dm/A G/B G
And ya only had to kill Patti's Daddy once...
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am
... To git that gal P.O.ed!
[Chorus]
C G C C/G C C/G
Yippe -i- ay, Cow Patti!
C G C C/G C C/G
Yippe -i- ay, Cow Patti!
G7 G7/D G7 G7/D
Rode into town to find...
E7 E7/B Am Am/E Am G
...The man that killed her Daddy, YAH!
C G
Yippe -i- ay------!
Am Am/E Am Am/E
Cow Patti!
[Break]
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E Am/G
e |----0----0----0----0--|----0----0----0---------|
B |----1----1----1----1--|----1----1----1---------|
G |----2----2----2----2--|----2----2----2---------|
D |----2----2----2----2--|----2----2----2---------|
A |--0---------0---------|--0---------0-----------|
E |-------0---------0----|-------0---------0---3--|
[Verse 5]
Am Am/E Am Am/E
The killer hit town at daybreak,
Am Am/E C C/G C C/G
Ate the door off the local sa - loon,
Dm Dm/A G/B G
He started to drink, you could tell he was thinking,
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E
There'll be a showdown soon------!
[Verse 6]
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E
Patti hit town in a cloud of dust,
Am Am/E C C/G C C/G
Old 'Flame' was buzzin' like a saw,
Dm Dm/A G/B
And the whole town got as quiet as a church...
...When the killer stepped out for the draw!
[Bridge]
Am
Forty shots rang out,(It's too many, I know that!)
C
Forty people fell,
Dm G
Patti and the killer missed each other,
Am G
But they shot that town to Hell! YAH!
[Chorus]
C G C C/G C C/G
Yippe -i- ay, Cow Patti!
C G C C/G C C/G
Yippe -i- ay, Cow Patti!
G7 G7/D G7 G7/D
Rode into town to find...
E7 E7/B Am Am/E Am G
...The man that killed her Daddy, HAH!
C G G
Yippe -i- ay------!
Am Am/E Am Am/E
Cow-------- ...Patti------------!
[Break] (Whistle 'The good the bad & the ugly' theme)
Am
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Am Am/E Am
The killer took a step towards Patti,
Am/G C C/G C
Said, "It's time I gunned ya down!"
Dm G
But he slipped in somethin' that was lyin' in the street,
Am
And was shot before he hit the ground!
(Killed him ...the dummy!
We had a pretty good song going here!)
[Coda]
Am
The killer slipped, and it cost him his life,
G
And Patti said, as she roared out of town,
F
"Ya, gotta watch yer step,
E G
When you know the chips are down!"
C G G/B G/D G7 C
Yippe -i- ay-----ay----------! COW PATTI!
