Lyrics
(American folk song)
1. I started on the trail on June 23rd,
I been punching Texas cattle on the Lone Star Trail;
Singing Ki yi yippi yippi yay yippi yay!
Singing Ki yi yippi yippi yay yippi yay!
2. I’m up in the mornin’ before daylight,
And before I sleep the moon shines bright. Refrain
3. Oh, it’s bacon and beans ‘most every day,
I’d as soon be a-eatin’ prairie hay. Refrain
4. My feet are in the stirrups and my rope is on the side,
Show me a horse that I can’t ride. Refrain
See also
- Country: Southwestern States (US)
- Subject: cowboys
- Form: AB
- Harmony: chords I & V / Orff arrangements
- Melody: tonic triad
- Meter: 2
- Scale: hexachord
- Tones: drmfsl
- Source: The American Songbag, Carl Sandburg, Harcout Brace and Company, 1927
YouTube
- Song with chords, Orff Arrangement (PDF)
- MIDI file
- Listen to the song
