Lyrics - Ballad Of Cat Ballou by Cole Nat King

Well now friends just lend an ear
For you're now about to hear
The ballad of
Cat
Ballou
It's a song that's newly made
And
Professus and
The
Shade
And the
Sunrise
Kid are singin' it for you
Cat
Ballou,
Cat
Ballou
It's a hangin' day in
Wolf
City,
Wyomin'
Wolf
City,
Wyomin', eighteen ninety four
They're gonna drop
Cat
Ballou
Through the gallows floor
She killed a man in
Wolf
City,
Wyomin'
Wolf
City,
Wyomin', killed a man it's true
And that is why they're 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 she's the
Devil)(
She's mean and evil through and through)
Cat
Ballou,
Cat
Ball-ou-ou-ou
She's mean and evil through and through
With her outlaw band they're now tellin' a story
Now tellin' a story how she rode the plain
The wildest gal in the
We-est
Since
Calamity
Jane
And today's the day that she's goin' to glory
She's goin' to glory for the way she sinned
They'll 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 she's the
Devil)(
She's mean and evil through and through)
Cat
Ballou (
Cat
Ballou)
Cat
Ball-ou-ou-ou (
Cat
Ballou)
She's mean and evil through and through
Cat
Ballou,
Cat
Ball-ou-ou-ou
She's mean and evil through and through

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