Garry Lee and Showdown[1][2][3] are a country band from Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada.
They are best known for their underground hit song "The Rodeo Song" (written by Gaye Delorme) and featuring prominent use of profanity, from the 1980 album, Welcome to the Rodeo.
In 1993, after extensive airplay by Simon Bates on BBC Radio 1,[4] the song was issued in the UK, and got to number 43 in the UK singles chart.
[5] In a 2018 interview,[6] the band members stated that they had heard Gaye Delorme play the song at a bar and decided to cover it, though royalties were not discussed.