I am looking for the full lyrics to this old song. My mother learned it as a little girl living in New Orleans. Her parents and Grandparents spoke Yiddish and she often sang it for the family. She told me she once performed it at school and was told to NEVER, Never sing that again. Far from politically correct, it was obviously Considered humorous when sung by a Jewish kid to a Jewish audience.

She remembered most of it after 80 years, but was missing a few lines.

HEre is what I have:

There was a Jew named Finkelstein
Who went out West one day
Just to shoot some Indians
That's what the neighbors say.
Left his wife and little child,
Didn't give a snap for home,
There he met a cowboy girl,
and to his wife he wrote a note.
And this is what he wrote:
"Western life is fine and dandy,
I ain't got no kick,
But when it comes to shooting Indians,
Oy, it makes me sick.

(MISSING LINES)

So I killed a few,
so I changed my name from Finkelstein,
To Yonkel the Cowboy Jew.