AmAm/EAmAm/EAm/GAmAm/EAmAm/EAm/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 1AmAm/EAmAm/E
From the badlands ...came the killer,
AmAm/ECC/GCC/G
He lived by the knife and the gun,
DmDm/AG/BG
Shoot ya just for standing,
AmAm/EAmAm/EAmAm/E
And cut ya if you tried to run!
verse 2AmAm/EAmAm/EAmAm/E
He was big as a tree,
AmAm/E
And he did as he pleased,
AmAm/ECC/GCC/G
And everything he did was bad,
DmDm/AG/BG
They said if you was to kill him,
AmAm/EAmAm/EAmAm/E
It'd only make him mad!
verse 3AmAm/EAmAm/EAmAm/EAmAm/E
From the goodlands ...came the cowgirl,
AmAm/ECC/GCC/G
Patti was her name,
DmDm/AG/BG
Hot on the trail of that killer,
AmAm/EAmAm/EAmAm/E
On a Moped she called 'Flame!'
verse 4AmAm/EAmAm/EAmAm/EAmAm/E
'Cause the killer had killed her Daddy,
AmAm/ECC/GCC/G
Just for spittin' in the road,
DmDm/AG/BG
And ya only had to kill Patti's Daddy once...
AmAm/EAmAm/EAm
... To git that gal P.O.ed!
CGCC/GCC/G
Yippe -i- ay, Cow Patti!
CGCC/GCC/G
Yippe -i- ay, Cow Patti!
G7G7/DG7G7/D
Rode into town to find...
E7E7/BAmAm/EAmG
...The man that killed her Daddy, YAH!
CG
Yippe -i- ay------!
AmAm/EAmAm/E
Cow Patti!
Break
AmAm/EAmAm/EAmAm/EAmAm/EAm/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
AmAm/EAmAm/E
The killer hit town at daybreak,
AmAm/ECC/GCC/G
Ate the door off the local sa - loon,
DmDm/AG/BG
He started to drink, you could tell he was thinking,
AmAm/EAmAm/EAmAm/E
There'll be a showdown soon------!
Verse 6
AmAm/EAmAm/EAmAm/EAmAm/E
Patti hit town in a cloud of dust,
AmAm/ECC/GCC/G
Old 'Flame' was buzzin' like a saw,
DmDm/AG/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,
DmG
Patti and the killer missed each other,
AmG
But they shot that town to Hell! YAH!
CGCC/GCC/G
Yippe -i- ay, Cow Patti!
CGCC/GCC/G
Yippe -i- ay, Cow Patti!
G7G7/DG7G7/D
Rode into town to find...
E7E7/BAmAm/EAmG
...The man that killed her Daddy, HAH!
CGG
Yippe -i- ay------!
AmAm/EAmAm/E
Cow-------- ...Patti------------!
Break (Whistle 'The good the bad & the ugly' theme)
Am
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^ ^ ^ ^ ^
AmAm/EAm
The killer took a step towards Patti,
Am/GCC/GC
Said, 'It's time I gunned ya down!'
DmG
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,
EG
When you know the chips are down!'
CGG/BG/DG7C
Yippe -i- ay-----ay----------! COW PATTI!