Cow Patti

[Birdgun Quail]

I remember hearing this song on the radio back in the '70s when I was station at Fort Bliss in the west Texas town of El Paso.

They just don't write songs like this any more!

COW PATTI
Jim Stafford

From the badlands came the killer,
He lived by his 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 did what 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 gal 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 there'd be a showdown soon.
Patti hit town in a cloud of dust,
Old Flame was buzzin' like a saw,
And the whole town got 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 the town to hell.

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 raced out of town,
"You got to watch your step,
When you know the chips are down."

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.

[Birdgun Quail]

Here's the audio of the song "Cow Patti" as sung by Jim Stafford.  Only he don't sing the last verse...

http://www.jimstafford.com/audio/cowpatti.html

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 raced out of town,
"You got to watch your step,
When you know the chips are down."

[Russ T Chambers]

Used to attend festival weekend at Calico Ghost Town outside of Barstow< CA.  (Dress-up and packin' of course.)   They had an entertainer named Julie Wingfield, who used to perform this song all the time.  I'd almost forgot it was Jim Stafford who recorded it.

[Pukin Dog]

Cow Patti

That sounds like a good alias for my wife

[UncleRed]

Hey Pukin Dog...you've either got a wife with a good sense of humour...or you sure like living dangerously...!!

[Marshal Will Wingam]

Thanks for posting that, BQ. I'd forgotten that song.

[Wymore Wrangler]

Lot of long term memories around here...