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I'm An Old Cow Hand~
Johnny Mercer
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I'm an old cowhand from the Rio Grande
But my legs ain't bowed and my cheeks ain't tan
Am Em
I'm a cowboy who never saw a cow
Never roped a steer cause I don't know how
Sure ain't a fixin to start in now
F G C Am F G C
Yippie yi yo kayah
I'm an old cowhand and I come down from the Rio Grande
And I learned to ride, ride, ride 'fore I learned to stand
I'm a riding fool who is up to date I know every trail in the Lone Star State
Cause I ride the range in a Ford V-8 .... Yippie yi yo kayah
We're old cowhands from the Rio Grande
And we come to town just to hear the band
We know all the songs that the cowboys know
'Bbout the big corral where the doggies go
We learned them all on the radio ... Yippie yi yo kayah
I'm an old cowhand {Oh yes,Mr.Bing.Too hot for you,Uncle Fudd?} Down from the Rio Grande
Oh where the west is wild all around the borderland
Where the buffalo roam around the zoo and the Injuns run up a rug or two
and the old Bar X is just a barbecue, ... yeah- Yippie yi yo kayah
I'm a pioneer who began from scratch I don't bat an eye in a shootin' match.
They don't call me Elmer, they call me Satch.
Yippie yi yo kayah ... Yippie yi yo kayah
Get along little horsy ... Get along little horsy ... Yippie yi yo kayah, oh! |
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This comic song written by Johnny Mercer for the film Rhythm on the Range and sung by its star, Bing Crosby. The Crosby recording with Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra was a hit in 1936, and greatly furthered Mercer's career.
It has also been sung by Roy Rogers (Sons of the Pioneers), Johnnie Ray, Jack Teagarden, Patsy Montana, Frank Sinatra, Dan Hicks, and Harry Connick Jr., among others. Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance, as their characters Lucy and Ethel, sang it in an episode of I Love Lucy. A notable jazz version by Sonny Rollins leads off his 1957 album Way Out West. An instrumental version was done by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass on their album The Brass are Comin'.[Wikipedia]
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