COW COW BOOGIE
Written for the film "Ride 'Em Cowboy" (1942)
(Benny Carter / Gene DePaul / Don Raye)

Freddie Slack & His Orch.(vocal: Ella Mae Morse) - 1942
Dorothy Dandridge - 1942
Ted Fio Rito & His Orch. - 1943
Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots - 1944
Glenn Miller & The AAF Band - 1944
Joe Loss & His Orch. - 1944
Mel Tormé & Rob McConnell - 1986
The Judds - 1987
Herb Jeffries - 1995
Also recorded by: Kasey Chambers; Frankie Laine; Gene Krupa;
Dottie Dillard; Paula West; The Rimshots; Maxine Sullivan;
Merrill Moore; Blue Moon; The Blue Saracens; Nancy Nelson;
Charlie Byrd; Benny Carter; Cowboy Jazz; Eight To The Bar;
Lannie Garrett; Sue Keller; Claude Bolling; Thelma Gracen;
Johannes Fehring; Bambi & Boys; Eden Atwood; Wayne Hancock;
Los Pistoleros; Jean-Paul Amouroux.


Out on the plains down near Santa Fe
I met a cowboy ridin' the range one day
And as he jogged along I heard him singing
A most peculiar cowboy song
It was a ditty, he learned in the city
Comma ti yi yi yeah
Comma ti yippity yi yeah

Get along, get hip little doggies
Get along, better be on your way
Get along, get hip little doggies
And he trucked them on down the old fairway
Singin' his Cow Cow Boogie in the strangest way
Comma ti yi yi yeah
Comma ti yippity yi yeah

(Chorus)
Singin' his cowboy song
He's just too much
He's got a knocked out western accent with a Harlem
touch
He was raised on local weed
He's what you call a swing half breed
Singin' his Cow Cow Booogie in the strangest way
Comma ti yi yi yeah
Comma ti yippity yi yeah

(Orchestral interlude)

Get along little doggie, better be on your way, your way,
Get along little doggie
And he trucked them on down the old fairway
Singin' his Cow Cow Boogie in the strangest way
Comma ti yi yi yeah
Comma ti yippity yi yeah.

Yip Yip singing his cowboy song
Yip Yip As he was joggling along
Yip Yip he sings with a Harlem touch
Yip Yip that guy is just too much
Singing his cow cow boogie in the strangest way
Comma ti yi yi yi yi yi yeah.


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TRIVIA: The Freddie Slack / Ella Mae Morse recording of
"Cow Cow Boogie" was the first release from newly formed
Capitol records and went on to become the company's first
million-seller.


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(Transcribed by Bill Huntley - October 2004)