From the badlands came the killer
He lived by his knife and the gun
He'd cut you just for standing
And shoot you if you tried to run
He was as big as a tree, and did what he pleased
Everything he did was bad
They said if you was to kill him
It'd only make him mad.

From the goodlands came the cowgirl
Patti was her name
She was hot on the trail of that killer
On a moped she called Flame
Cause the killer had killed her daddy
Just for spittin' in the road
And you only had to kill her daddy once
To get that girl p.o.'d.

CHORUS:
Yippee-i-ay Cow Patti
Yippee-i-ay Cow Patti
She rode into town to find the man
That killed her daddy
Yippee-i-ay Cow Patti

Forty shots rang out
Forty people fell
Patti and the killer missed each other
But they shot the town to hell,
The killer took a step toward Patti
Said, "It's time I gunned you down"
But he slipped in something that was laying in the street
And was shot before he hit the ground.
Yes, the killer slipped and it cost him his life
And Patti said as she raced out of town
"You got to watch your step, when you know the chips are down."

(CHORUS)