I was just listening to a great documentary: Yodeling: music of the soul (or something like that)... Had great examples of Swiss & Country style yodeling.. included history, mechanisms, places to hear yodeling, & greats like Pasty Montana, Elton Britt, Wilf Carter (Montana Slim), Jimmie Rodgers, etc..

Anyway, they ended the program with a couple of sisters singing & yodeling in excellent harmony to a tune called Rocking Over, by Les Wilson. I kept running the tape over & over to write down the lyrics, but I couldn't clearly hear two lines. Can anybody help me?

In the chorus: Rockin' over, oh rocking over,
I'm singing with the river as I ride
Rockin' over, oh rocking over,
Oh(?) this *******, down the Mountain Side
Yodel..etc..

Last verse: Rockin' over, oh rocking over,
I;m singing with the river as I ride
Rockin' over, oh rocking over,
I'm headed for the spot up there
My pony knows & I don't care
?************************over on the**?
Yodel..etc..

By the way, I was absolutely stunned to find out that yodeling was done by black minstrels in the earliest days of vaudeville, and even earlier (early 1800's). There was, of course, white counterparts to that at the time too, also connections to traveling European & Swiss troupes during the Gay '90s and earlier. You can even hear yodeling in those operatic voices, so popular in the early western towns.

I think I'm going to start a thread on musical history. There are a lot of you Mudcatters who are incredibly knowledgeable about the origins of various types of music & songs... "Keep on the Sunny Side!"