I'm going to delete five of SXnady's last six posts, but I thought I'd leave them for a while so you could see how hard he worked for us on this. Sandy, is the tune for the "tail up" part the same as what I posted above (click)?

Here's the entry from the Indiana State University Library:

Title: Horsey keep your tail up keep the sun out of my eyes.
First Line: Reuben is so silly, he will never wear a hat
Chorus: Oh horsey, keep your tail up
Music by: Hirsch, Walter, Kaplan.
Words by:
P/P/D: S.I. : M. Witmark, & Sons, c1923.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1923-1929

So you can see that the published version is different, and who knows what the Spike Jones version sounds like. The quest continues.
-Joe Offer-