Ragtime Cowboy Joe
Ragtime Cowboy Joe was written in 1912
Music by Lewis F. Muir and Maurice Abrahams
Lyrics by Grant Clarke.
Out in Arizona
Where the bad men are,
And the only friend to guide you
Is an evening star,
The roughest and the toughest
Man by far
Is Ragtime Cowboy Joe.
He always sings
Raggy music to the cattle
As he swings
Back and forward in the saddle
On a horse
That is syncopated gaited
And there's such a funny meter
To the roar of his repeater.
How they run
When they hear that 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.
Music by Lewis F. Muir and Maurice Abrahams
Lyrics by Grant Clarke.
Out in Arizona
Where the bad men are,
And the only friend to guide you
Is an evening star,
The roughest and the toughest
Man by far
Is Ragtime Cowboy Joe.
He always sings
Raggy music to the cattle
As he swings
Back and forward in the saddle
On a horse
That is syncopated gaited
And there's such a funny meter
To the roar of his repeater.
How they run
When they hear that 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.