Ragtime Cowboy Joe (key of C)
Public domain - full karaoke IMMHA-L302
Credit: Grant Clarke and Lewis F. Muir (with Maurice Abrahams) · 1912
Origin: Published 1912. Public domain in the US. Typed sheet in capitals with chords, key of C, '(Grant Clarke, Lewis Muir)', with a drawing of a cowboy playing guitar on a bucking horse.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragtime_Cowboy_Joe
Lyrics sheet: courtesy of Country Roads Folk Music Camp, Mount Madonna County Park, California (about the camp)
Original scan: from John's songbook (scan to be posted on @IMMHACAL)
Chords as printed on the original song sheet. Chords and wording as typed. Margin note: 'cloths' is as typed (clothes).
C F C F Out in Arizona where the bad men are C A7 D G7 And the only friend to guide you is an evening star C F C The roughest toughest man by far Am D7 G7 C Is Ragtime Cowboy Joe G C G C Got his name from singing to the cows and sheep G E A7 G7 Every night they say he sings the herd to sleep C F C F In a basso rich and deep G7 B7 G7 Crooning soft and low [Chorus] G7 C He always sings raggy music to the cattle D7 As he swings back and forward in the saddle G7 On a horse that is syncopated gaited C Am And there's such a funny meter D7 G7 To the roar of his repeater C How they run when they hear that fellow's gun D7 Because the western folks all know F He's a high faluting, scooting Shooting son of-a-gun from Arizona D7 G7 C Ragtime Cowboy Joe C F C F Dressed up every Sunday in his Sunday cloths C A7 D G7 He beats it for the village where he always goes C F C And every girl in town is Joe's Am D7 G7 C 'Cause he's a ragtime bear G C G C When he starts a spieling on the dance hall floor G E A7 G7 No one but a lunatic would start a war C F C F Wise men know his forty four G7 B7 G7 Makes men dance for fear [Chorus]