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Thread #24131   Message #272967
Posted By: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca
07-Aug-00 - 01:52 PM
Thread Name: Songs from TV westerns
Subject: ADDPOP: Rawhide & Johnny Yuma
From the Television Theme Song Book - Volume 2

Rawhide

Rollin' rollin' rollin' tho' the streams are swollen, keep them dogies rollin' Rawhide.
Through rain and wind and weather, hellbent for leather, wishin' my girl was by my side,
All the things I'm missin', good vittles, love and kissin' are waitin' at the end of my ride.

Move 'em on head 'em up, head 'em up, move 'em on, move 'em on, head 'em up, Rawhide!
Cut 'em out! Tiem 'em in! Ride 'em in! Turn 'em in! Cut 'em out! Ride 'em in, Rawhide__

Keep movin', movin', movin', though they're disapprovin', keep them dogies movin', Rawhide.
Don't try to understand 'em, just rope 'n' throw 'n' brand 'em, soon we'll be livin' high and dry
My heart's calculatin', my true love will be waitin' She's waitin' at the end of my ride.

Sugarfoot
The show: Tom Brewster was a peculiar western hero. He liked reading books, hated violence, and was terrible in gunfights (he could barely even shoot straight). In fact, he was so inept at traditional cowboy things that other cowboys had to invent a new term to describe him - "sugarfoot", one step lower than the lowly "tenderfoot". Brewster was an educated Easterner who was studying law with a correspondence school. He travelled west in the 1860s, full of dreams about the romance of the wild west, but kept finding trouble instead of adventure. And since he wasn't too handy with six-guns, all he could do was try to bluff his way out of dangerous situations. This method often flabbergasted his enemies. On the first episode of the show, for example, one villan (played by Dennis Hopper) asked him: "Whaddya tryin' to do, talk me to death?" And he was!



The Rebel
Words by Richard Markowitz and Andrew Fenady

Chorus
Johnny Yuma was a rebel,
He roamed through the west
Did Johnny Yuma, The Rebel
He wandered alone.

He searched the lands, this restless lad,
He was panther quick and leather tough
And he figured he'd been pushed enough,
The REBEL, Johnny Yuma

He got fightin' mad, this rebel lad,
He packed no star as he wandered far,
When the only law was a hook and a draw
The REBEL, Johnny Yuma

He was fightin' mad, this rebel lad
With a dream he'd hold 'till his dying breath
He'd search his soul and gamble with death,
The REBEL, Johnny Yuma

oh, forgot, the Rawhide theme song was by Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington.

Apparently, the theme song for Davy Crockett was written by Tom Blackburn, with words by George Bruns. There are TWENTY verses to it!