Doobie -tie -yi -y o,
Get Along, Little Dogies,
is one of the great cowboy songs,
considered by many to be the most beautiful,
certainly by Rose Trevanton,
the Gypsy singer,
from whom my father found the
song in 1908 in Fort Worth.
As I walked out one mornin' for pleasure
I spied a cow puncher a -ridin' along
His hat was throwed back
and his spurs was a -jinglin'
As he approached me,
a -singin' this song,
Whoopee -tie -yi -yo,
get along, you little doggies,
It's your misfortune an
d none of my own,
Whoopee -tie -yi -yo,
get along, you little doggies,
for you know
Wyoming will be your new home.
Early in the spring we round
up the doggies,
mark them and brand them
and bob off their tails.
Round up the horses,
load up the truck wagon,
and throw them doggies out on the trail.
And it's whoopin' and yellin'
and drivin' them doggies
For how I wish that you would go on
It's whoopin' and yellin' and
punchin' them doggies
For you know
Wyoming will be your new home
Your mother,
she's raised way down in Texas
Where the ginseng, weed,
and a sandbur's grow
Now we'll fill you up on
prickly pear and cola
So you'll be ready for the trail to Idaho
Or you'll be soup for Un
cle Sam's engines
It's beef, beef, beef, I hear them cry
Get along, get along, get along,
you little doggies
For you'll be beef -steers by and by
Oopitye -yi -yo, get along,
you little doggies
It's your misfortune
and none of my own
Get along, you little doggies,
for you know
Wyoming will be your
new home.