It turns out there was already a transcription at The Berrymans' web site. I have tweaked the formatting to suit myself. I also added Lou's introduction from the video. DOUBLE YODEL ©1995 Lou & Peter Berryman; Words by Peter, Music by Lou [Lou:] Here's a song we've been doing for quite a while. It's a song that we wrote after we realized that we couldn't yodel. We were really sad until we realized that, cooperatively, we can. [Peter:] I was once a lonesome cowboy. Ask my cattle. [Lou:] I was once a cowgirl incomplete and blue, [Both:] Till the roundup when we came to share a saddle. Now we do all of the things that sidekicks do. [Peter:] Plus, not only does romancing go with dancing [Lou:] On the chaparral without a chaperone, [Both:] But additionally, it seems to be enhancing All the thousand things we used to do alone. [Lou:] Like when I sneeze, I have a guy to say, "Gesundheit!" [Peter:] Changing a fuse, I found a gal to hold the flashlight. [Both:] Out of all these, the one that made my pleasure total, Is that I found I had a pal to help me yodel. CHORUS: [Peter:] Yodel-a-day [Lou:] ee [Peter:] tee-oh, yodel-ay [Lou:] ee [Peter:] tee-oh [Lou:] oo, [Both:] We yodel along the trail all day. [Peter:] Yodel-a-day [Lou:] ee [Peter:] yodel-ay [Lou:] ee [Peter:] oh [Lou:] ee [Peter:] ay [Lou:] ee [Peter:] oh [Lou:] ee [Peter:] ay [Lou:] ee, [Both:] In an easy double-vocal yodel way.…* [Lou:] Saturday night when we confuse the palomino [Peter:] Taking the long romantic way to the casino [Both:] Riding along we share a jug of Amoretto [Peter:] And after I sing a line of bass, [Lou:] I sing falsetto. CHORUS [Lou:] Lucky we are to have each other for assistance, [Peter:] For when the locals hear us yodel in the distance, [Both:] And when they say, "That yokel's vocal cords are supple!" They'd be surprised to find the yokel is a couple. CHORUS [*There's more yodeling at the end of each chorus which neither I nor the Berrymans (apparently) had the patience to transcribe. -JD [First appeared on the CD "Double Yodel" in 1995. Re-recorded for "Love Is The Weirdest of All" in 2004. L&PB also sing it on "Laugh Tracks, Vol. 2," a multiple-artists concert album produced by Christine Lavin.]
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