Jack Kennedy: Music
Yippie-Ki-Yi-Ya
(Jack Kennedy)
When I was six, there was a massive oak tree in my backyard, underneath which was a wooden rail fence. My friends and I (Tommy and John Loomis, Dave Hammel, and others now forgotten) would sit on that fence and sing every cowboy song we new. It's one of my happiest memories. (I hope this song finds it way to you guys somewhere out there on the range....)
Yippie-Ki-Yi-Ya
We sang like cowboys on a split-rail fence
singing Old Dan Tucker, though it made no sense
singing Red River Valley in the cowboy way
happy trials to you, yippie-ki-yi-yaa
Yippie-ki-yi-yo
Yippie-ki-yi-yaa
Come along little doggies everything’s ok
as we ride our palominos we will find our way
happy trails to you, yippie-ki-yi-yaa
Singing Oh Suzanna as we roped the strays
bound for California all our live long days
Riding cross the open prairies, far as we could see
singing cowboy songs for hours ‘neath that old oak tree
Yippie-ki-yi-yo
Yippie-ki-yi-yaa
Come along little doggies everything’s ok
as we ride our palominos we will find our way
happy trails to you, yippie-ki-yi-yaa
More than 40 years have passed now and we are grown up men
I’d like to be together on that fence again
Just to have those days remembered, every little thing
Just to have the kind of freedom that makes a cowboy sing
Yippie-ki-yi-yo
Yippie-ki-yi-yaa
Come along little doggies everything’s ok
as we ride our palominos we will find our way
happy trails to you, yippie-ki-yi-yaa
©Jack Kennedy, October 02, 2002