Origins: Cows Have Ears and Cows Have Feet

Subject: Origins: Cows Have Ears and Cows Have Feet
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 26 Jan 25 - 04:28 PM

If anyone knows anything about the following song, please post below.
Better yet, if you know a version could you sing it to my voicemail at
[phone] ?    Please let us know where & when you learned it.

Cows have ears and cows have feet
Big brown eyes make them look sweet
Milk to drink and cheese to eat
Hey, cows are neat

When you're drinking that glass of milk each day
Be thankful for the vitamins coming your way
Help you grow up big and strong to say
Hey, cows are neat

1997. Untitled song. Woman learned at a fraternity party at the
University of Illinois Carbondale. Recording in the Jack Horntip Collection.

With the Carnation / PET milk poem thread going, it brought to mind
the Cow Have Ears song. Help with this is appreciated. Post below
or sing into the voicemail.


Download here: https://archive.org/download/jack_horntip_collection_field_recordings/0913%2001%20-%20Cows%20Have%20Ears%20And%20Cows%20Have%20Feet.mp3

Subject: RE: Origins: Cows Have Ears and Cows Have Feet
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 26 Jan 25 - 04:44 PM

The Cow Song

Cows have ears and cows have feet,
big brown eyes make them look sweet.
Milk to drink and cheese to eat
!!HEY!! cows are neat,
they use there utters,
cows are neat,
they give us butter
cows are neat.
Soooooooo, when u drink your milk today,
think of the vitamins heading your way,
iron, calcium, vitamin A
!!HEY!!, cows are neat,
they like the weather, cows are neat,
they give us letter, cows are neat!

Formatted for easier reading. Retrieved from https://scoutorama.com/the-cow-song-song


Using the Internet Archive or the website the song was contributed to the scoutorama.com website by Brad Taranto on 26-Sep-2006.

See here: https://web.archive.org/web/20110926105414/http://www.scoutorama.com/song/song_display.cfm?song_id=872

Subject: RE: Origins: Cows Have Ears and Cows Have Feet
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 26 Jan 25 - 04:51 PM

Cows have ears and cows have feet
Their big brown eyes make them look sweet
Milk to drink and cheese to eat
Cows are neat

I remember a ton about grade 1, including a lot of songs and poems.

Posted by zoobaby to the buzzle.ca forum thread "How much do you remember about grade 1" on 07-16-2019.


See here: http://buzzle.ca/showthread.php?tid=89057

Subject: RE: Origins: Cows Have Ears and Cows Have Feet
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 26 Jan 25 - 05:03 PM

Cow Song
(Written by Luke Gobel)

Cows have ears and Cows have feet
Big brown eyes make them look sweet
Milk to drink and cheese to eat (hey)
Cows are neat (they give us butter)
Cows are neat (they use their utters)
Cows are neat

So as you drink you milk each day
Think of the vitamins headin’ you way
Iron, Calcium, and Vitamin A (hey)
Cows are neat (they love the weather)
Cows are neat (they give us leather)
Cows are neat

Ransburg Scout Reservation Camp Song Book by Justin “Sox” Scott. PDF. p.16.

Retrieved May 20, 2014 from www.ransburgbsa.org/documents/10156/15060/Ransburg%2520SONG%2520BOOK.pdf

Subject: RE: Origins: Cows Have Ears and Cows Have Feet
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 26 Jan 25 - 05:31 PM

Cows have ears and Cows have feet
Big brown eyes make them look sweet
Milk to drink and cheese to eat (hey)
Cows are neat (they give us butter)
Cows are neat (they use their udders)
Cows are neat

So as you drink your mile [sic] each day
Think of the vitamins headin' your way
Iron, Calcium, and Vitamin A (hey)
Cows are neat (they love the weather)
Cows are neat (they give us leather)
Cows are neat

Written by: Luke Gobel

Ransburg Scout Reservation 2000 p.19. of the
scanned pages. This is a sort of "remembrance" book or
yearbook for the summer camp.


See here: http://www.ransburgbsa.org/s/2000.pdf

Subject: RE: Origins: Cows Have Ears and Cows Have Feet
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 26 Jan 25 - 05:52 PM

Cows are neat -- they give us butter
Cows are neat -- they use their udders
Cows are neat -- du-du---du-du-dut
The cows we eat.

The vegetarian version is just like that:

Cows are neat -- they give us butter
Cows are neat -- they use their udders
Cows are neat -- du-du---du-du-dut
They stomp their feet.

Oh, yeh. That's pretty much it.

July 26, 2007. Transcribed from the singing of Jeremy Jarvis. Recording in the Jack Horntip Collection.


Listen here: https://archive.org/download/jack_horntip_collection_field_recordings/0756%2001%20-%20Cows%20Are%20Neat.mp3