Chords for Ballad of Cat Ballou - Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye

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[C] Well now friends just lend an ear for you're now about to hear the ballad of Cat [G] Baloo
It's [Em] a song that's newly made and [D] Professor Sam has shaved and the sunrise kid are singing it [C] for you
Cat Baloo, Cat _ _ _ _ _ Baloo, _ _ _ _ Cat Baloo _ _
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_ [A] It's a [Am] hanging day [C] in Wolf City, Wyoming, Wolf City, Wyoming, [F] _ _ _
[C] 1894
_ _ [G] They're gonna drop Cat Baloo _ through the [C] gallows _ floor _ _
_ She killed a man in Wolf City, Wyoming, Wolf City, Wyoming, [F] killed a [C] man is true
And that is [G] why they're hanging, hanging Cat [C] Baloo _ _ _
She has the smile of an angel, bites like the devil, [Dm] the eyes of [G] an angel, bites like the devil, [C] the face of an angel
I say she's the devil, [G] she's mean and evil [C] through and through
[G] Cat Baloo, _ [C] Cat Baloo, [G] she's mean and evil [C] through and through
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_ _ Cat [G] _ _
_ _ _ [Gb] Baloo, _
_ _ _ _ [Ab] Cat _ [C] _ _ Baloo, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Cat your _ [Am] time has come _ _
_ [G] As you [C] stand on the _ _ brink, _ _ it's sure _ making you _ _ _ think, _ _ [F] _ about your _ _ life of sin _ _
_ [G] _ _ How come they're now _ _ gonna hang [D] you? _
_ _ And how [G] did you _ _ _
_ _ [Gb] begin? _ _
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_ [Am] Cat Baloo, she lived [C] in Wolf City, Wyoming, and folks here in Wyoming [F] _ live high off [C] the hub
That brand new [G] firm, Scissorobuck, send them their cat [C] along _ _
_ _ [Am] It's an up, right now, yeah, [C] with kind, wonderful people, reliable people, [F] friendly as can [C] be
So they say, when they [G] say howdy, they mean it, ha, yep, they're _ [C] neighborly _
_ _ If only Cat had behaved, [Am] these folks would befriend her
[Dm] If Cat had [G] behaved, [Dm] their hearts they [G] would lend her
[C] But Cat was depraved, to hell now they'll send her
[G] She could have lived like [C] others do
Cat [G] Baloo, _ [C] we've been through and through, [G] they'll now be hanging [C] Cat Baloo _ _
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[Am] Then there came to town, [C] a gun deadly and frightening, a gun quick and enlightening, [F] fastest gun [C] you've seen
It [G] was the gun in the hand of Steel-Eyed Kid [C] Shelley _ _ _ _
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Just one look at him, [C] Catfolk starved and booger, wild, wild as a cougar, [F] proud and fierce [C] and mean
There was no [G] man who was tougher, _ tough as Kid Shelley _
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_ _ _ [Dm] He [Ab] had the eyes of a [Am] killer, cold as a devil, the [Dm] look of a killer, the look [G] of a devil, the [C] face of a killer
That man was the devil, just [G] wild and ornery and [C] _
mean
Kid [G] Shelley, _ Kid [C] Shelley, _ _ the fastest gun you've ever [C] _ seen
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There are [Eb] _ teardrops in her _ heart, _ [Ab] but they can't make her [Eb] cry
_ _ There are teardrops in her [Gm] _
heart, but they [F] can't make [Bb] her cry _
[Eb] She's lost all the kin that she's [Ab] known, [Gm] and the tears will turn into [Eb] stone
_ _ All the _ teardrops in her _ heart, cause they [Bb] can't make her [Eb]
cry
_ _ _ It's not very hard to _ weep when [Ab] you're a little _ [Eb] girl
_ _ It's not very _ hard [Ab] to weep when [Bb] you're [F] a little _ _ girl _
But they [Eb] made a little girl feel [Bb] _ _ like a [Ab] woman made [Bb] of [Bb] steel
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[Gm] Makes no difference [Bb] how they _ [Cm] try, _ _ _ _ they'll [F] never _ _ _ make _ her cry
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_ _ _ So that [Am]
mournful day [C] became part of a legend, the real start of a legend, [F] known as Cat _ [C] Baloo
_ [G] They'll never make her [C] _ _ cry, _ _ the day the [G] law filled her heart with a hate that [C] grew
_ [G] Makes no difference how they try, they'll [D] never make her [G] cry
When you [Am] have no tears, [C] then you gotta have something, hate really is something, _ [F] blood is what you [C] need
_ They'll [G] never make her [C] _ _ cry, _ _ and Cat [G] Baloo made her mind up to make this country [C] bleed
_ Makes no [G] difference how they try, [D] they'll never make [G] her cry _
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She had [E] a classy female brain, [C] to stay the hold up of a train
[A] She planned to do the last detail, until it couldn't fail
_ _ [Bbm] Stashy daring _ Desperado, led her gang with cool bravado
They would follow where [Db] she'd lead, [G] they made the country bleed
_ _ Round and round and [D] round it went, to land and [A] gal and geese for spread
[D] Round and round and round they rode, [E] oh what an episode
So _ _ _ _ _ she [Am] rode away, just where [G] now is a mystery
A cat wrote a new history, _ [F]
and her legend grew
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She was [G] the queen of the outlaws, her highness Cat [C] Baloo _
Cat Baloo, [Dm] _ Cat [C] Baloo, _ [G] well our story now [C] is true _
[G] Cat Baloo, _ [C] Cat Baloo, _ [G] we'll say _ farewell to [C] Cat Baloo
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