The Covered Wagon March, 1923.
Words by R. A. Barnet.
Music by Hugo Riesenfeld.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. Come you heroes strong and ready
Hear you not the bugles call?
On with the pack, your gun on your back
For freedom is waiting all
See! the covered wagon’s ready
Wife and sweetheart standing near
Fearless and true, to share life with you
So forward with hearty cheer
CHORUS
Westward Ho! follow the lonesome trail
Westward Ho! never to stop nor fail
Westward Ho! over the mountain peak
There is our home, the home we seek
Westward Ho! Travel along with cheering song
So Westward Ho! Oh, Ho!
2. Floating proudly is Old Glory
Waving o’er us day and night
Red, white and blue, says, “Come Boys and Do”
And do it with all your might
We’ll be known in song and story
Pioneers who blazed the way
Over the plain through sunshine and rain
With grit and a “Hip Hoo-ray”