UP AND DOWN THE PRAIRIE
>From the film "Young Bill Hickok" (1940)
(Peter Tinturin)


Sally Payne & George 'Gabby' Hayes (Film Soundtrack) - 1940



GABBY:
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on, up and down the prairie
While the Moon is shinin' on, up and down the prairie
It don't matter where we go, long as we are merry
BOTH: 
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on, up and down the prairie

SALLY:
There's but one way to be passin' time away
GABBY:
With a yippee-aye and a yippee-oh and a double yippee-ay
Oh, if you wat to see the sites extry-ordinary
SALLY:
Take your gal and take a ride up and down the prairie

GABBY:
I don't like the womenfolk, somehow they upset me
They just take a look at me and they can't forget me
SALLY:
Ev'ry time I meet a man and my love has got him
I go home and hear the news, someone came and shot him

SALLY:
There's but one way to be passin' time away
GABBY:
With a yippee-aye and a yippee-oh and a double yippee-ay, oh
SALLY:
Tell me, Gabby, one more thing, how d'ya get so hairy
GABBY:
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on
BOTH:
Up and down the prairie



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - March 2017)