-artists: nat king cole and stubby kaye
-words by mack david and music by jerry livingston
-title song from the 1965 film starring jane fonda, lee marvin (who won an oscar
-for his dual role as a drunken lawman and his counterpart, outlaw kid sheleen)
-cole and kaye, as strolling minstrels, functioned as a greek chorus, commenting
-on the action (? )

Well now friends just lend an ear
For youre now about to hear
The ballad of cat ballou
Its a song thats newly made
And professus and the shade
And the sunrise kid are singin it for you

Cat ballou, cat ballou

Its a hangin day in wolf city, wyomin
Wolf city, wyomin, eighteen ninety four
Theyre gonna drop cat ballou
Through the gallows floor

She killed a man in wolf city, wyomin
Wolf city, wyomin, killed a man its true
And that is why theyre a-hangin
Hangin cat ballou

She has the smile of an angel
(fights like the devil)
The eyes of an angel
(bites like the devil)
The face of an angel
(I say shes the devil)
(shes mean and evil through and through)

Cat ballou, cat ball-ou-ou-ou
Shes mean and evil through and through

With her outlaw band theyre now tellin a story
Now tellin a story how she rode the plain
The wildest gal in the we-est
Since calamity jane

And todays the day that shes goin to glory
Shes goin to glory for the way she sinned
Theyll be a-speedin her soul
On a wayward wind

She has the smile of an angel
(fights like the devil)
The eyes of an angel
(bites like the devil)
The face of an angel
(I say shes the devil)
(shes mean and evil through and through)

Cat ballou (cat ballou)
Cat ball-ou-ou-ou (cat ballou)
Shes mean and evil through and through

Cat ballou, cat ball-ou-ou-ou
Shes mean and evil through and through

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