Help needed with lyrics to a kids song about a cowboy

[Motorgirl]

I'm looking for the words to a song we used to sing at camp.

The snippets I am remembering might be from two different songs, or parts of the same song.

Part One:
Something about "Randolph the Shiny Gun Cowboy" possibly sung to the tune of Rudolph the RedNosed Reindeer

Part Two:
".... rootin tootin son of a gun from Arizona
Ragtime cowboy, talk about your cowboy, Ragtime Cowboy Joe"


Ring any bells with anyone?

[kaylasdad99]

That song is called "Ragtime Cowboy Joe"

Oh how he sings
Raggy music in his [can't remember word]
While he swings
Back and forth in his saddle
On a horse (What a horse!)
That is syncopated-gaited
What a funny meter to the roar of his repeater...

Check for that title. Possibly written by Ross Bagdasarian (David Seville) for Alvin and the Chipmunks.

[kaylasdad99]

Oh, and if you Yahoo! the terms "lyrics", and "had a very shiny gun", you will come upon a long list of possible parodies of the Rudolph song. Needless to say, "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" is not sung to the tune of "Rudolph."

[kaylasdad99]

Hah! I remembered.

Oh how he sings
Raggy music to his cattle.

[ElvisL1ves]

"Ragtime Cowboy Joe" was a 1949 hit for Jo Stafford and Paul Weston. It's available on various compilation albums.

Lyrics by Lewis F. Muir and Maurice Abrahams; music by Grant Clarke (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/ragtime.htm)