Patsy Montana



Background information
Birth name: Rubye Rose Blevins
Also known as: The Cowboy's Sweetheart
Born: October 30, 1908; Beaudry, Arkansas, U.S.
Died: May 3, 1996 (aged 87); San Jacinto, California, U.S.
Website: Patsy Montana Site

Rubye Rose Blevins (October 30, 1908 – May 3, 1996), known professionally as Patsy Montana, was an American country-western singer and songwriter. Montana was the first female country performer to have a million-selling single with her signature song "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart", and is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Biography

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Patsy Montana with daughters Beverly and Judy

After semi-retiring in the late 1950s to spend more time with her family, Montana attempted a comeback in 1964. She released an album on the Sims label in Arizona, notable for having Waylon Jennings as lead guitar player before he made his national debut. The album was later re-released by Starday Records. She influenced later singers Patsy Cline and Dottie West, and more recently, Western music star Devon Dawson, the singing voice of Toy Story 2's Jessie the Yodeling Cowgirl.

Montana's signature song, "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart", appears over the end credits of John Sayles's 1996 film Lone Star, which was released just weeks after Montana's death.

Montana died on May 3, 1996, at her home in San Jacinto, California. As {her husband, Paul E. Rose, a stage manager for Gene Autry when they met,} served in the United States Army, she is buried at Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California. She was inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1987 and in the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1996.

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Patsy Montana & the CBS-KMBC Texas Rangers–I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart (Colorado Sunset 1939)

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Yodeling Cowgirl Patsy Montana performs her signature song "I Want to Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart" from Gene Autry's 1939 Republic Pictures film "Colorado Sunset." She's backed by the CBS-KMBC Texas Rangers and that's Smiley Burnette who askes Patsy "Whatcha doin' in this country?"

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I WANT TO BE A COWBOY'S SWEETHEART

I WANT TO BE A COWBOY'S SWEETHEART
I WANT TO LEARN TO ROPE AND TO RIDE
I WANT TO RIDE O'ER THE PLAINS AND THE DESERT
OUT WEST OF THE GREAT DIVIDE

I WANT TO HEAR THE COYOTES HOWLIN'
WHILE THE SUN SINKS IN THE WEST
I WANT TO BE A COWBOY'S SWEETHEART
THAT'S THE LIFE THAT I LOVE BEST

SHE WANTS TO BE A COWBOY'S SWEETHEART
SHE WANTS TO LEARN TO ROPE AND TO RIDE
SHE WANTS TO RIDE O'ER THE PLAINS AND THE DESERT
OUT WEST OF THE GREAT DIVIDE

AH LEE DEE OH DA LAY EEH HEE
OH DA LAY EEH HEE
YO DO OH HOO DOO DEE

I WANT TO HEAR THE COYOTES HOWLIN'
WHILE THE SUN SINKS IN THE WEST
I WANT TO BE A COWBOY'S SWEETHEART
THAT'S THE LIFE THAT I LOVE BEST

I WANT TO RIDE OLD PAINT, GOIN' AT A RUN
I WANT TO FEEL THE WIND IN MY FACE
A THOUSAND MILES FROM THE CITY LIGHTS
GOIN' A COWHAND'S PACE

I WANT TO PILLOW MY HEAD NEAR THE SLEEPIN' BIRDS
WHILE THE MOON SHINES DOWN FROM ABOVE
I WANT TO STRUM MY GUITAR
AND OH DA LAY DEE DEE EEH EEH!
(THAT'S THE LIFE THAT I LOVE!)

Writer: Patsy Montana
Publisher: Universal Music Corp.

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