Ballad Of Cat Ballou Lyrics

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Ballad Of Cat Ballou Lyrics by Nat King Cole

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-artists: nat king cole and stubby kaye 
-words by mack david and music by jerry livingston 
-title song from the 1965 film starring jane fonda, lee marvin (who won an oscar 
-for his dual role as a drunken lawman and his counterpart, outlaw kid sheleen) 
-cole and kaye, as strolling minstrels, functioned as a greek chorus, commenting 
-on the action (? ) 
 
Well now friends just lend an ear 
For youre now about to hear 
The ballad of cat ballou 
Its a song thats newly made 
And professus and the shade 
And the sunrise kid are singin it for you 
 
Cat ballou, cat ballou 
 
Its a hangin day in wolf city, wyomin 
Wolf city, wyomin, eighteen ninety four 
Theyre gonna drop cat ballou 
Through the gallows floor 
 
She killed a man in wolf city, wyomin 
Wolf city, wyomin, killed a man its true 
And that is why theyre a-hangin 
Hangin cat ballou 
 
She has the smile of an angel 
(fights like the devil) 
The eyes of an angel 
(bites like the devil) 
The face of an angel 
(I say shes the devil) 
(shes mean and evil through and through) 
 
Cat ballou, cat ball-ou-ou-ou 
Shes mean and evil through and through 
 
With her outlaw band theyre now tellin a story 
Now tellin a story how she rode the plain 
The wildest gal in the we-est 
Since calamity jane 
 
And todays the day that shes goin to glory 
Shes goin to glory for the way she sinned 
Theyll be a-speedin her soul 
On a wayward wind 
 
She has the smile of an angel 
(fights like the devil) 
The eyes of an angel 
(bites like the devil) 
The face of an angel 
(I say shes the devil) 
(shes mean and evil through and through) 
 
Cat ballou (cat ballou) 
Cat ball-ou-ou-ou (cat ballou) 
Shes mean and evil through and through 
 
Cat ballou, cat ball-ou-ou-ou 
Shes mean and evil through and through

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