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.

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

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(Bonus: Trigger kisses Roy

Comments

[daisy_knotwise]

Ragtime Cowboy Joe.

GHR

[beamjockey]

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

[daisy_knotwise]

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

GHR

[beamjockey]

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!

[ritaxis]

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!

[beamjockey]

You're welcome. But sorry about the earworm curse.

[peteralway]

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

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

[stickmaker]

>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."