TAKE ME BACK TO MY BOOTS AND SADDLE
(Teddy Powell / Walter Samuels / Leonard Whitcup)

Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. (vocal: Cliff Weston) - 1935
Victor Young & His Orch. (vocal: Frank Luther) - 1935
Henry "Red" Allen & His Orch. (vocal: Henry Allen) - 1935
Bing Crosby - 1935
Gene Autry - 1935
Tex Ritter - 1935
Al Jolson - 1936
John Charles Thomas - 1936
Jimmy Wakely - 1956
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - 1957
Tex Ritter & Stan Kenton - 1962
Riders In The Sky - 1995

Also recorded by: Johnson Family Singers;
Wills Brothers; Rimrock Ramblers; Art Tatum.


Take me back to my boots and saddle
Wooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ah-ooh
Let me see that gen'ral store
Let me ride that range once more
Gimme my boots and saddle

Let me ramble along the prairie
Wooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ah-ooh
Ropin' steers on old Bar-X
With my buddies, Slim and Tex
Oh, gimme my boots and saddle

Got a hankerin' to be with a banjo on my knee
Strummin' a pretty western tune
There's a gal in Cherokee
And she's waitin' there for me
Waitin' 'neath a Texas moon

Take me back to my boots and saddle
Wooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ah-oooh
Let me greet each blazin' morn
On the ranch where I was born
Oh, gimme my boots and saddle

Wooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooooooh


(Transcribed from the Al Jolson recording
by Mel Priddle - November 2005)