The Very Best Fake Cowboy Song

[beamjockey]

What's the best fake cowboy song? "Jingle Jangle Jingle?" "Don't Fence Me In?" "Wah-Hoo?" Some other song?

"Jingle Jangle Jingle," also known as "I've Got Spurs That Jingle Jangle Jingle," Joseph J. Lilley and Frank Loesser, 1942.
Lyrics.

"Don't Fence Me In," by Cole Porter and Robert Fletcher, 1934. Lyrics.

(Bonus: Trigger kisses Roy Rogers.)

"Wah-Hoo," by Cliff Friend, 1936. Lyrics.

Until recently I didn't care for the highly-earwormy "Wah-Hoo," but then I discovered the Hoosier Hotshots' cover of the song, and it's growing on me.

Comments

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

On the second video: thanks for the trigger warning.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Cool, Clear Water.

Makes no sense whatever but it's haunting.

[seawasp]

What do you mean by "fake cowboy song"? A song not written by actual cowboys?

[acmespaceship.livejournal.com]

All excellent fake cowboy songs indeed. But my all-time favorite is a faux-recreation of the ultimate fictional archetype: http://www.ukulelejim.net/2007/04/the-cowboy-song/

Also, Long Tall Texan.

Giddyup.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Happy Trails.

[daisy-knotwise.livejournal.com]

Ragtime Cowboy Joe.

GHR

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Also, and I believe this deserves a separate comment, thank you for "Wahoo." It's an old old earworm of mine, old enough that I didn't know exactly what it was. And now I do!

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

But this is the definitive rendition of "Don't Fence Me In" :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjijoh5FJ9g

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

>Until recently I didn't care for the highly-earwormy "Wah-Hoo," but then I discovered the Hoosier Hotshots' cover of the song, and it's growing on me.

So instead of being an internal parasite, it's now an external one. ;-)

I nominate "Ghost Riders in the Sky."