Artist: | Gene Autry (English) |
User: | ralph estes |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
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Written by Johnny Mercer with the melody based on an English tune, “Westminster Chimes.” Recorded by Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Gene Autry & Roy Rogers. [For A Cowboy Has to Sing, p. 155] |
"I'm An Old Cowhand"
Written by Johnny Mercer with the melody based on an English tune, “Westminster Chimes.” Recorded by Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Gene Autry & Roy Rogers.
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I'm an old cowhand from the Rio Grande
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But my legs ain't bowed, and my cheeks ain't tanned
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Well I'm a cowboy who never saw a cow
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Never roped a steer 'cause I don't know how
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And I sure ain't fixin' to start in now
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yippee - i - o - ki - ay, yippee - i - o - ki - ay
I'm an old cowhand from the Rio Grande
And I learned to ride before I learned to stand
Well I'm a ridin 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
Oh, yippee-i-o-ki-ay, yippee-i-o-ki-ay
I'm an old cowhand from the Rio Grande
And I come to town just to hear the band
I know all the songs that the cowboys know
'Bout the big corral where the dogies go
'Cause I learned them all on the radio
Oh, yippee-i-o-ki-ay, yippee-i-o-ki-ay
I'm an old cowhand from the Rio Grande
Where the west is wild round the borderland
Where the buffalo roam ALL around the zoo
And the dude ranches take you for a ride or two
And the old Bar-X is the Bar-be-cue
Oh, yippee-i-o-ki-ay, yippee-i-o-ki-ay