Am              C               Am

It's a hanging day, in Wolfcity (?), Wyoming,

   C                    F   C

in Wolfcity, Wyoming, in 1894

               G

There's gonna drop Cat Balou

 (silence)                     C

Right through the gallows floor



         Am              C

Well she killed a man in Wolfcity, Wyoming,

   C

In Wolfcity, Wyoming

    F                  C

She killed a man, it's true

            G

And that is why they're hanging

  (silence)               C

They're hanging Cat Balou



             C

She has the smile of an angel

     Am

She fights like the devil

    F          G

The eyes of an angel

    F          G

She fights like the devil

    C

The face of an angel

    Am

I say she's the devil

       G                         C

She's mean and evil through and through



          G           C

Cat Ballou, Cat Ballou

        G                        C

She's mean and evil through and through



           Am

Then there came to town

   C                 C

A gun deadly and frightening

   C                 C

A gun quicker than lightning

     F                 C

The fastest gun you've seen

          G                (silence)

It was the gun in the hand of

                       C

Steely Kitchelean (???)



          Am

Just one look at him

     C                 C

And folks starting to shake

  C              C

Wild, wild as a snake

  F                   C

Proud and fierce and mean

            G                  (silence)

There was no man who was tougher

                       C

As tough as Kitchelean



            C

He had the eyes of a killer

    Am

As cold as the devil

     F         G

The look of a killer

     F         G

The look of the devil

     C

The face of a killer

     Am

That man was the devil

      G                   C

Just wild and ornery and mean



          G         C

Kitchelean, Kitchelean

       G                      C

The fastest gun you've ever seen



(repeat the same chords as before)

Then she road away

Just to where now was a mystery

But Cat roamed into history

Lent (?) her legend rule

She was the queen of the outlaws

Her highness Cat Balou



Cat Balou, Cat Balou

And now the story is all through

Cat Balou, Cat Balou

Say farewell to Cat Balou