A popular song from 1909.
Words by Jeff T. Branen.
Music by Al. Piantadosi.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. Cohen got tired from the simple life
And turned his pawn-shop over to his wife
Says he, “I’ll go and show your cowboy Jew
Right away a thing or two
I’ll go out west and join an Indian band
We’ll wipe those cowboys from the prairie land
With grip sack full of bomb shells
I’ll start a regular fight
For the Indians call me “Big Chief Dynamite”
Oo-whoopska, oo-whoopska
CHORUS
Big Chief Dynamite, oi, oi
I’m a tough Jew Indian boy
Who’s afraid from the western life
What I care for the cowboy’s knife
Tough Guy Levi and his bunch
I will eat them for my lunch
Come on, cowboys I don’t care a Whoop
For all that’s on the prairie
Dynamite’s a tough guy too, you see
2. Tough Guy Levi heard about the threat
Said he, “I’ll make it hot for Cohen, you bet”
And right away he sent for brother Sylvest
To drive back Cohen from the west
“Come on” said Coh’n you and your brother too
You’ll look like thirty cents when I get through
Sylvest and Levi started
To fight with all their might
“It’s a shame,” said Coh’n
Then threw the dynamite
Oo-whoopska, oo-whoopska