Ragtime Cowboy Joe
1912
Key: Eb
MUSIC BY LEWIS MUIR AND MAURICE ABRAHAMS.
LYRICS BY GRANT CLARKE

Chords and lyrics provided by Judy Muldawer
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Intro chords:

AbAdimEbC7

F7Bb7Eb


VERSE 1:

Eb           Ebdim
Out in Ar-iz-o-na
          Eb          Ebdim
where the bad men are
        Eb              C7
And the on-ly friend to guide you
       F7            Bb7
is the Eve-'ning star

    Eb         Ebdim
The rough-est, tough-est
Eb        C7
man by far
   F7
is Rag-time
Bb7     Eb
Cow Boy Joe

Bb                Bbdim
Got his name from sing-ing
       Bb            Bbdim
to the cows and sheep
Bb               G7
Ev'ry night they say he sings
    C7   F7      Bb7
the herd to sleep
Eb   Ebdim      Eb   Adim
In a bass-o rich and deep
D7                 Gm       Bb7
croon-in' soft and low.

CHORUS:

           Eb
He al-ways sings
rag-gy mu-sic to the cat-tle
E7    F7
As he swings
back and for-ward in the sad-dle
     Bb7
On a horse that is
syn-co-pat-ed, gait-ed,
            Eb
And there's such a fun-ny
Edim
me-ter to the
Fm7            Bb7
roar of his re-peat-er

         Eb
How they run
when hear that fel-low's gun
  E7        F7
Because the West-ern
folks all know
       Ab
He's a high-fa-lut-ing,
Adim
scoot-ing, shoot-ing
Eb                C7
Son-of-a-gun from ar-iz-o-na
F7       Bb7    Eb  Bb7
Rag-time CowBoy Joe.

VERSE 2:

Eb               Ebdim
Dressed up ev'ry Sun-day
       Eb             Ebdim
in his Sun-day clothes
   Eb               C7
He beats it for the vil-lage
         F7           Bb7
where he al-ways goes
    Eb    Ebdim   Eb
And ev'ry girl in town is Joe's
C7     F7     Bb7      Eb
 cause he's a rag-time bear.

Bb               Bbdim
When he starts a-spieling
       Bb              Bbdim
on the dance hall floor
Bb           G7
No one but a lun-a-tic would
C7    F7Bb
start a war
Eb           EbdimEb
Wise men know his fo-rty four
Ebdim D7
makes men
          Gm    Bb7
dance for fair.

FINAL CHORUS:

           Eb
He al-ways sings
rag-gy mu-sic to the cat-tle
E7    F7
As he swings
back and for-ward in the sad-dle
     Bb7
On a horse that is
syn-co-pat-ed, gait-ed,
            Eb
And there's such a fun-ny
Edim          Fm7
me-ter to the roar
          Bb7
of his re-peat-er

         Eb
How they run when
hear that fel-low's gun
  E7         F7
Be cause the West-ern
folks all know
       Ab
He's a high-fa-lut-ing,
Adim
scoot-ing, shoot-ing,
Eb                C7
Son-of-a-gun from Arizona
F7       Bb7
Rag-time Cowboy
F7              Bb7
Talk about your cowboy
F7      Bb7    Eb  Bb7Eb
Ragtime cowboy Joe.