HOPPY, GENE AND ME
(Snuff Garrett / Stephen Dorff / Milton Brown)


Roy Rogers - 1974



It seems like only yesterday 
That we rode the range together
The prairie skies and tumbleweeds 
Just as far as we could see

Then you grew up and drifted on
But I know that you remember
When you were a saddle pal 
To Hoppy, Gene and me

Freckle face and skinned-up knees
You helped us fight the bad guys
With a five cent bag of popcorn
And a cap gun by your side

You know, time has a way of changin' things
Soon there was your first love
You thought it would last forever
But when she left, you cried

But Hoppy, Gene and me
We taught you how to shoot straight
And a cowboy never cries
That's how it had to be

Just stories from the silver screen
Now most of them forgotten
Double feature Saturdays
With Hoppy, Gene and me

At last you found your real true love
And now you look so happy
Is that your little cowpoke
You're bouncin' on your knee

Well, the prairie sky is just as blue
And life is like a re-run
And just like you, he'll be a saddle pal
To Hoppy, Gene and me

Hoppy, Gene and me
We taught you how to shoot straight
You were goin' to be a cowboy
That's how it had to be

Just stories from the silver screen
Now most of them forgotten
Double feature Saturdays
With Hoppy, Gene and me

(Yodelling) ........ FADE




(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - February 2017)