Ragtime Cowboy Joe. 1912.

Seq - Dr. J.Pitt-Payne. Kar - Bunty Pritchard Jones. July 2000.

Out in Arizona where the bad men are,
And the only friend to guide you is an evening star.

The roughest toughest man by far,
Is ragtime Cowboy Joe.

Got his nickname singing to his cows and sheep,
Every night they say he sings his herd to sleep,

In a voice so rich and deep
Crooning soft and low.

He always sings raggy music to the cattle as he swings,
Back and forward in a saddle on a horse,

that is syncopated, gaited, And there's such a
funny metre, to the roar of his repeater.

How they run when they hear the fellow's gun,
Because the Western folks all know,

He's a high Faluting, scooting, shooting, son of a gun
from Arizona, Ragtime Cowboy Joe.

He always sings raggy music to the cattle as he swings,
Back and forward in a saddle on a horse,

that is syncopated, gaited, And there's such a
funny metre to the roar of his repeater.

How they run when they hear the fellow's gun,
Because the Western folks all know,

He's a high Faluting, scooting, shooting son of a gun
from Arizona, Ragtime Cowboy Joe.

Dressed up ev'ry Sunday in his Sunday clothes,
He beats it for the village where he always goes,

And ev'ry girl in town is Joe's,
'Cause he's a ragtime bear.

When he starts spieling on the dance~hall floor,
No one but a lunatic would start a war.

Wise men know his forty four
Makes men dance for fair.

He always sings raggy music to the cattle as he swings,
Back and forward in a saddle on a horse,

that is syncopated, gaited, And there's such a
funny metre to the roar of his repeater.

How they run when they hear the fellow's gun,
Because the Western folks all know,

He's a high Faluting, scooting, shooting son of a gun
from Arizona, Ragtime Cowboy Joe.

He always sings raggy music to the cattle as he swings,
Back and forward in a saddle on a horse,

that is syncopated, gaited, And there's such a
funny metre to the roar of his repeater.

How they run when they hear the fellow's gun,
Because the Western folks all know.

He's a high Faluting, scooting, shooting son of a gun
from Arizona, Ragtime Cowboy Joe.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano1 - lyric
piano2
Ragtime Cowboy Joe
1912
Music by Lewis F Muir & Maurice G Abrahams
Words by Grant Clarke
MIDI
This is a further dip into the world of
The Ragtime Song
My thanks to Doug Grierson for sustaining me with
naughty sweeties (candy)
Sequenced by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
And our good friend
Bunty Pritchard Jones
for making this Karaoke
which tells of an atypical cowboy called Joe
who has started singing to his cows and taking
animal husbandry to fresh fields
Ragtime Cowboy Joe 1912 seq Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 14th July 2000

Ragtime Cowboy Joe 1912 Music: Lewis F Muir & Maurice Abrahams Words: G. Clarke