A popular song from 1951
Featured on the “Ken Murray Television Show”
Words and music by Ken Murray, Royal Foster and Chas. Wick
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. I’m a man that’s aggravated
Got trouble female kind
Like a horse that’s single gaited
She’s got a one-track mind
Some gals like their silks and satins
A diamond or bouquet
When I ask my girl what she likes
Here’s what she’ll always say
Chorus:
I like the wi-hide open spaces
Out where the cactus gray-yooze
Where two guns beat four aces
I like the wi-hide open spaces
2. Me top man of Wah-hoo Nation
They call me Super Chief
Catch-um squaw at railroad station
And catch-um plenty grief
Me put both my arms around her
She started in to squawk
She made me Chief Hole-in-Head
With her Injunction tomahawk
3. Took my gal a-horseback ridin’
Moon shinin’ bright above
Found my arm around her slidin’
I started talkin’ love
When I puckered up to kiss her
She started in to shout
Hit me with her loaded pistol
Knocking’ my front teeth out
(more verses are available on the sheet music)
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: