Go West Young Man Lyrics

Before you go to Buffalo, to Baltimore or Borneo
To eastern Pennsylvania or Sudan
Go west, young man
If you go to that land sunny you will have a lot of money
If you bring the money with you when you come
To the lone prairie

Yippie yi, yippie yi, yippie yi yi yi
Yippie yi, yippie yi, yippie yi

Before you read a travel ad or scamper off to Trinidad
To Albany, New York or Yucatan
Go west, young man
In the east they live on doughnuts
In the west the natives grow nuts
And I′ll guarantee you'll go nuts if you come
To the lone prairie

Yippie yi, yippie yi, yippie yi yi yi
Yippie yi, yippie yi, yippie yi

Go west, young man

Go where the air puts hair on your chest, young man
You can ride a bucking bronco or a pony
You can cut a calf in half and make bologna
Go west, young man

Go right out there and give ′em the very best you can
Don't go north, don't go south, don′t go east, have a care
Don′t go up, don't go down, don′t go here, don't go there
If you are fond of hunting there′s no place that can compare
You may not bag a lion or a tiger or a bear
But if you want a jackass there are plenty of them there
Go west, young man

In sunny California when the clouds are breaking loose
And you complain about the rain they give you this excuse
"It isn't raining rain you know it′s raining orange juice"
Go west, young man
The judges there are very fair, they always are of course
A cowboy and his missus went to court for a divorce
The cowboy got the children and the missus got the horse
Go west, young man

Go out and till the soil there
Dig for gold and you'll find oil there
When the snow flies, as the crow flies, go westward ho
If there's a cattle shortage which can happen like as not
And they can′t find a hunk of meat to chuck into the pot
They sit around and beef about the beef they haven′t got
Go west, young man