Ballad Of Cat Ballou Lyrics - Nat King Cole

-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 

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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 

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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 

(I say she's the devil) 

(she's mean and evil through and through) 

Cat ballou (cat ballou) 

Cat ball-ou-ou-ou (cat ballou) 

She's mean and evil through and through 

Cat ballou, cat ball-ou-ou-ou 

She's mean and evil through and through