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America’s Favorite Jim Stafford Songs
In 1974, Jim wrote and recorded his first chart making song, “The Swamp Witch”, produced by his boyhood friend Kent LaVoie, (known as Lobo). He followed with a gold single, “Spiders and Snakes”, which stayed on the American pop charts for 26 weeks. The hits just kept coming and included “My Girl Bill”, “Wildwood Weed”, and the wonderfully satirical “Cow Patti”, written for the Clint Eastwood movie, Any Which Way You Can, in which Jim appeared.
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Song: Cow Patti
Artist: Jim Stafford
Composer: Jim Stafford
Tabbed by DJ
25th Apr 2016
Jim's own version at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpapdB-bCFI
Song starts at [1:00]
Me on guitar with 'The Halloween Hicks' at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrjRMNTtZKY
Am = x02210 Dm = xx0231 G7/D = xx0001
Am/E = 002210 Dm/A = x00231 E7 = 022130
Am/G = 000000 G/B = x20033 E7/B = x22130
C = x32010 G = 320033 F = 133211
C/G = 332010 G7 = 320001 E = 022100
Emphasise the alternating bass notes.
**********************************************************
[Intro]
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am/G Am Am/E Am Am/E Am/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 1]
Am Am/E Am Am/E
From the badlands ...came the killer,
Am Am/E C C/G C C/G
He lived by the knife and the gun,
Dm Dm/A G/B G
Shoot ya just for standing,
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E
And cut ya if you tried to run!
[Verse 2]
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E
He was big as a tree,
Am Am/E
And he did as he pleased,
Am Am/E C C/G C C/G
And everything he did was bad,
Dm Dm/A G/B G
They said if you was to kill him,
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E
It'd only make him mad!
[Verse 3]
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E
From the goodlands ...came the cowgirl,
Am Am/E C C/G C C/G
Patti was her name,
Dm Dm/A G/B G
Hot on the trail of that killer,
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E
On a Moped she called 'Flame!'
[Verse 4]
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E
'Cause the killer had killed her Daddy,
Am Am/E C C/G C C/G
Just for spittin' in the road,
Dm Dm/A G/B G
And ya only had to kill Patti's Daddy once...
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am
... To git that gal P.O.ed!
[Chorus]
C G C C/G C C/G
Yippe -i- ay, Cow Patti!
C G C C/G C C/G
Yippe -i- ay, Cow Patti!
G7 G7/D G7 G7/D
Rode into town to find...
E7 E7/B Am Am/E Am G
...The man that killed her Daddy, YAH!
C G
Yippe -i- ay------!
Am Am/E Am Am/E
Cow Patti!
[Break]
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E Am/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]
Am Am/E Am Am/E
The killer hit town at daybreak,
Am Am/E C C/G C C/G
Ate the door off the local sa - loon,
Dm Dm/A G/B G
He started to drink, you could tell he was thinking,
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E
There'll be a showdown soon------!
[Verse 6]
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E
Patti hit town in a cloud of dust,
Am Am/E C C/G C C/G
Old 'Flame' was buzzin' like a saw,
Dm Dm/A G/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,
Dm G
Patti and the killer missed each other,
Am G
But they shot that town to Hell! YAH!
[Chorus]
C G C C/G C C/G
Yippe -i- ay, Cow Patti!
C G C C/G C C/G
Yippe -i- ay, Cow Patti!
G7 G7/D G7 G7/D
Rode into town to find...
E7 E7/B Am Am/E Am G
...The man that killed her Daddy, HAH!
C G G
Yippe -i- ay------!
Am Am/E Am Am/E
Cow-------- ...Patti------------!
[Break] (Whistle 'The good the bad & the ugly' theme)
Am
||: /_/ /_/ / / | / / / / :|| [x4]
^ ^ ^ ^ ^
Am Am/E Am
The killer took a step towards Patti,
Am/G C C/G C
Said, "It's time I gunned ya down!"
Dm G
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,
E G
When you know the chips are down!"
C G G/B G/D G7 C
Yippe -i- ay-----ay----------! COW PATTI!
Artist: Jim Stafford
Composer: Jim Stafford
Tabbed by DJ
25th Apr 2016
Jim's own version at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpapdB-bCFI
Song starts at [1:00]
Me on guitar with 'The Halloween Hicks' at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrjRMNTtZKY
Am = x02210 Dm = xx0231 G7/D = xx0001
Am/E = 002210 Dm/A = x00231 E7 = 022130
Am/G = 000000 G/B = x20033 E7/B = x22130
C = x32010 G = 320033 F = 133211
C/G = 332010 G7 = 320001 E = 022100
Emphasise the alternating bass notes.
**********************************************************
[Intro]
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am/G Am Am/E Am Am/E Am/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 1]
Am Am/E Am Am/E
From the badlands ...came the killer,
Am Am/E C C/G C C/G
He lived by the knife and the gun,
Dm Dm/A G/B G
Shoot ya just for standing,
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E
And cut ya if you tried to run!
[Verse 2]
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E
He was big as a tree,
Am Am/E
And he did as he pleased,
Am Am/E C C/G C C/G
And everything he did was bad,
Dm Dm/A G/B G
They said if you was to kill him,
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E
It'd only make him mad!
[Verse 3]
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E
From the goodlands ...came the cowgirl,
Am Am/E C C/G C C/G
Patti was her name,
Dm Dm/A G/B G
Hot on the trail of that killer,
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E
On a Moped she called 'Flame!'
[Verse 4]
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E
'Cause the killer had killed her Daddy,
Am Am/E C C/G C C/G
Just for spittin' in the road,
Dm Dm/A G/B G
And ya only had to kill Patti's Daddy once...
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am
... To git that gal P.O.ed!
[Chorus]
C G C C/G C C/G
Yippe -i- ay, Cow Patti!
C G C C/G C C/G
Yippe -i- ay, Cow Patti!
G7 G7/D G7 G7/D
Rode into town to find...
E7 E7/B Am Am/E Am G
...The man that killed her Daddy, YAH!
C G
Yippe -i- ay------!
Am Am/E Am Am/E
Cow Patti!
[Break]
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E Am/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]
Am Am/E Am Am/E
The killer hit town at daybreak,
Am Am/E C C/G C C/G
Ate the door off the local sa - loon,
Dm Dm/A G/B G
He started to drink, you could tell he was thinking,
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E
There'll be a showdown soon------!
[Verse 6]
Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E Am Am/E
Patti hit town in a cloud of dust,
Am Am/E C C/G C C/G
Old 'Flame' was buzzin' like a saw,
Dm Dm/A G/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,
Dm G
Patti and the killer missed each other,
Am G
But they shot that town to Hell! YAH!
[Chorus]
C G C C/G C C/G
Yippe -i- ay, Cow Patti!
C G C C/G C C/G
Yippe -i- ay, Cow Patti!
G7 G7/D G7 G7/D
Rode into town to find...
E7 E7/B Am Am/E Am G
...The man that killed her Daddy, HAH!
C G G
Yippe -i- ay------!
Am Am/E Am Am/E
Cow-------- ...Patti------------!
[Break] (Whistle 'The good the bad & the ugly' theme)
Am
||: /_/ /_/ / / | / / / / :|| [x4]
^ ^ ^ ^ ^
Am Am/E Am
The killer took a step towards Patti,
Am/G C C/G C
Said, "It's time I gunned ya down!"
Dm G
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,
E G
When you know the chips are down!"
C G G/B G/D G7 C
Yippe -i- ay-----ay----------! COW PATTI!
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