Nat Cole King Ballad Of Cat Ballou lyrics

-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 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
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