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Go West, Young Man!
The Andrews Sisters
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Bing Crosby
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Before you go to Buffalo, to Baltimore or Borneo
To Eastern Pennsylvania or Sudan
Go West, young man!
If you go to that land sunny, you will have a lot of money
If you bring the money with you when you come
To the Lone Prairie!
Yipee yi, yipee yi, yipee yi yi yi
Yipee yi, yipee yi, yipee yi
Before you read a travel ad or scamper off to Trinidad
To Albany, New York or Yucatan
Go West, young man!
In the East they live on donuts, in the West the natives grow nuts
And I'll guarantee you'll go nuts if you come
To the Lone Prairie!
Yipee yi, yipee yi, yipee yi yi yi
Yipee yi, yipee yi, yipee yi
Go West, young man!
Go where the air puts hair on your chest, young man!
You can ride a bucking bronco or a pony
You can cut a calf in half and make bologna
Go West, young man!
Go right out there and give them the very best you can
Don't go North, don't go South, don't go East, have a care
Don't go up, don't go down, don't go here, don't go there
If you are fond of hunting there's no place that can compare
You may not bag a lion or a tiger or a bear
But if you want a jackass there are plenty of them there
Go West, young man!
In sunny California when the clouds are breaking loose
And you complain about the rain they give you this excuse
"It isn't raining rain, you know, it's raining orange juice!"
Go West, young man!
The judges there are very fair, they always are of course
A cowboy and his missus went to court for a divorce
The cowboy got the children and the missus got the horse
Go West, young man!
Go out and till the soil there
Dig for gold and you'll find oil there
When the snow flies as the crow flies
Go westward ho!
If there's a cattle shortage, which can happen like as not
And they can't find a hunk of meat to chuck into the pot
They sit around and beef about the beef they haven't got
Go West, young man!
Yipee yi, yipee yi, yipee yi yi yi
Yipee yi, yipee yi, yipee yi