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

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

That one goes even further into silliness than "I'm an Old Cowhand."

[daisy-knotwise.livejournal.com]

Well, then...
How 'bout Tumblin' Tumbleweeds?

GHR

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

I fear you misunderstand. Silliness is no reason to reject a song from the canon of Great Fake Cowboy Songs, and "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" is a fine example. My mental ideal of a Fake Cowboy Song is one written in Brooklyn, which RCJ suits.

"Tumbling Tumbleweeds" is by Bob Nolan, the same guy who gave us "Cool Water." It's such a good cowboy song that I almost hate to acknowledge its fakeness-- but as Nolan was reportedly working as a caddy in Los Angeles when he wrote it, let's allow it!