Here is a YouTube.com video and the lyrics to one of my favorite country songs:
Get Along, Little Doggies by CompVid101on June 30, 2009
The Kingston Trio performs a traditional cowboy tune that appeared on their 1962 album “New Frontier.” A genuine folk standard in the U.S., “Get Along, Little Dogies” has been recorded by scores of other artists, and its chorus was familiar to school children who for decades learned and sang it in music appreciation classes. The Kingstons here present it in a straightforward manner that respects the song’s roots in American traditions. A dogie, of course, is a reference to a young cow, often thought to have been derived from the cowboy jargon of “dough-guts,” referring to the often distended bellies of yearling cattle.
The video is a montage of paintings and illustrations of cowboy life by Frederic Remington, perhaps the greatest of American Western painters.
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Get Along Little Doggies Lyrics
Artist: Woody Guthrie
Album: Struggle
Oh, little doggies,
It’s your misfortune and not of my own.
Whoop-ee-ti-yi-o get along little doggies,
You know that Wyoming will be your new home.A cattle trail drunk and a hard road to travel,
That old Jack O’ Diamonds is a hard card to play.
Get along, get along, get along little doggies,
Get along little doggies and be on your way.Whoop-ee-ti-yi-o get along little doggies,
It’s your misfortune and not of my own.
Whoop-ee-ti-yi-o get along little doggies,
You know that Wyoming will be your new home.Some boys have bit this old cow trail for pleasure,
But that’s where they get it most awfully wrong.
I wish I could tell you the troubles they give us,
As we go rolling these doggies along.Whoop-ee-ti-yi-o get along little doggies,
It’s your misfortune and not of my own.
Whoop-ee-ti-yi-o get along little doggies,
You know that Wyoming will be your new home.
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Get along, now, boys! Yee-hah!
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